Transgender man gives birth to baby boy. ‘Love is possible,’ he says. So is ‘being a loving family.’

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Trystan Reese and his partner, Biff Chaplow, were already seasoned parents when they decided last year that they wanted another child.

Years earlier, they had adopted Chaplow’s niece and nephew after his sister was no longer able to take care of them. They raised the two children as their own, bringing them up in Los Angeles, where Reese and Chaplow worked in nonprofits, then moving the family to Portland, Ore., where they live now.

Adoption was a taxing process, Reese said, and learning how to care for two toddlers ushered in a suite of new challenges and lifestyle changes, as it does for any parent. But it was also eye-opening.

“After the dust settled, I just realized how much I loved our kids,” Reese told The Washington Post, “and how much room there was in our life for our family to grow.”

After trying for several months, Reese, a transgender man, got pregnant. And just weeks ago, he gave birth to a healthy baby boy.

 

 

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Reese, 34, was assigned female sex at birth and lived as a woman until his late teens. After counseling, he began taking hormones around age 20 and started identifying as a man. He met Chaplow nearly eight years ago and said it was “love at first sight.” They took custody of Chaplow’s sister’s children in 2011.

When they decided to have a biological child, they sought out medical advice. Doctors told them that because Reese had only undergone hormone therapy in his transition, preparing to conceive wouldn’t be very different than for a woman who had been on hormonal birth control.

Reese said he became pregnant about five months after he stopped taking testosterone.

“When I found out, it was equal parts elation and fear,” he said. “I was so excited to be on this journey with the person that I love, and then also really scared. Could I do this? Pregnancy is hard, labor is hard, and I hoped that I’d be able to handle it all.”

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/02/transgender-man-gives-birth-to-baby-boy-love-is-possible-he-says-so-is-being-a-loving-family/

 

I mean, this is a wonderful touchy feely story and all, but its rather funny because fake news WaPo tries to hide until mid way through the article the fact that this is a female with female biological parts, not a male conceiving a baby. There's no miracle or amazing aspect about someone with female body parts having a child. Happens over ten thousand times a day in the US. I guess anything to feel special for doing nothing out of the ordinary.

 

What they did was take hormone therapy that mimics birth control and upon not taking it, their normal female body function worked as its supposed to and "she" got pregnant.

 

What would really be a miracle is if this female who identifies as male were really a male who grew all the female anatomical parts necessary for birthing a child, never mind the egg required for creating a human. Human biology (i.e. science) sort of stands in the way of pretending to be the other gender.

[Teddy B 17,252]

4 minutes ago, IAMX said:

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/02/transgender-man-gives-birth-to-baby-boy-love-is-possible-he-says-so-is-being-a-loving-family/

 

I mean, this is a wonderful touchy feely story and all, but its rather funny because fake news WaPo tries to hide until mid way through the article the fact that this is a female with female biological parts, not a male conceiving a baby. There's no miracle or amazing aspect about someone with female body parts having a child. Happens over ten thousand times a day in the US. I guess anything to feel special for doing nothing out of the ordinary.

 

What they did was take hormone therapy that mimics birth control and upon not taking it, their normal female body function worked as its supposed to and "she" got pregnant.

 

What would really be a miracle is if this female who identifies as male were really a male who grew all the female anatomical parts necessary for birthing a child, never mind the egg required for creating a human. Human biology (i.e. science) sort of stands in the way of pretending to be the other gender.

Did the words "Transgender Man" in the title throw you?

[CaliCat 3,957]

1 hour ago, Teddy B said:

Did the words "Transgender Man" in the title throw you?

 

Spending so much time minding about the private lives of other people is a complex science. It requires time and dedication. Mistakes are likely to happen. LOL. 

 

The hissy fits are always priceless though.

 

 

 

Edited August 2, 2017 by CaliCat

[Ban Hammer 14,291]

25 minutes ago, CaliCat said:

 

Spending so much time minding about the private lives of other people is a complex science. It requires time and dedication. Mistakes are likely to happen. LOL. 

 

The hissy fits are always priceless though.

 

 

 

perhaps you meant to post the above in one of the trump pages?

[CaliCat 3,957]

27 minutes ago, Ban Hammer said:

perhaps you meant to post the above in one of the trump pages?

 

Do tell...

[IAMX 3,055]

2 hours ago, Ban Hammer said:

perhaps you meant to post the above in one of the trump pages?

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

5 hours ago, Teddy B said:

Did the words "Transgender Man" in the title throw you?

It gets all very confusing.  Seriously 

[IAMX 3,055]

3 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

It gets all very confusing.  Seriously 

It's confusing for the left..

 

For those of us who understand even elementary biology, it's a pretty simple thing to discern.. there's two sex chromosomes (and only two), homogametic (XX, female), heterogametic (XY, male). That's it. Easy enough.

 

But this is a social construct, it's funny how we leave the premise of socially forcing others to adhere to subjective beliefs (vis-a-vis religion) but the left turn around and pull the same stupid stunts with things like this. Apparently the left today are excluded from the rules the left of yesteryear fought to change. Things have come full circle eh?

[CaliCat 3,957]

1 hour ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

It gets all very confusing.  Seriously 

 

Twice in a day. 

 

 

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

1 hour ago, IAMX said:

It's confusing for the left..

 

For those of us who understand even elementary biology, it's a pretty simple thing to discern.. there's two sex chromosomes (and only two), homogametic (XX, female), heterogametic (XY, male). That's it. Easy enough.

 

But this is a social construct, it's funny how we leave the premise of socially forcing others to adhere to subjective beliefs (vis-a-vis religion) but the left turn around and pull the same stupid stunts with things like this. Apparently the left today are excluded from the rules the left of yesteryear fought to change. Things have come full circle eh?

Lot of bigotry and intolerance in the left ditches these days

 

[IAMX 3,055]

3 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

Lot of bigotry and intolerance in the left ditches these days

 

Under the auspices of the tolerance movement.

 

Should be called the oxymoron movement.

[Dashinka 25,889]

11 hours ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

It gets all very confusing.  Seriously 

Not really.  A biological woman had a baby.  Big news.  When a baby is delivered through a biological male sex organ, then there might be a news story.

Edited August 3, 2017 by Bill & Katya

[IAMX 3,055]

5 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

Not really.  A biological woman had a baby.  Big news.  When a baby is delivered through a biological male sex organ, then there might be a news story.

The left completely disregard science for an emotional story. I think that's the real story here.

[Teddy B 17,252]

6 minutes ago, IAMX said:

The left completely disregard science for an emotional story. I think that's the real story here.

I still can't believe that the article in the op tried to hide the fact that this was really a woman giving birth and not a man. Deceptive lefty's.

[Dashinka 25,889]

35 minutes ago, Teddy B said:

I still can't believe that the article in the op tried to hide the fact that this was really a woman giving birth and not a man. Deceptive lefty's.

The MDL is all about fake news, fake headlines, etc.  WaPo is one of the worst offenders.  Thank God we have other sources.