Trystan Reese, 34, and his husband Biff Chaplow, from Portland, Oregon, USA, will be welcoming a son.
The two are already parents to Chaplow’s niece and nephew, who the couple adopted six years ago.
The trans man who, according to CNN, “was assigned the female gender at birth,” apparently never wanted to change his body parts. “He” has been on male hormones for about a decade, had to stop the medication when the couple began trying to conceive.
Reese told news reporters that the doctors “he” and Chaplow sought advice from gave the green light for the couple to have a child.
In a video, Charisma News reports that Reese explained to his audience why he wanted to have a baby as a man.
He said part of the reason involved dismantling the apparent myth that all trans people hate their bodies. For him, this myth is not true, since he said, “I never felt like I needed to change my body. And I for sure do not hate my body.”
He made the situation even more confusing by saying that he never wished to be a man from the start.
The couple told KATU that their children, Riley and Hailey, are excited to have a baby brother.
Reese also had to explain that he didn’t hate being a woman; he “just didn’t happen to be one on the inside.” Therefore, he felt that it was okay for him to go back to being a woman for a long enough time to be pregnant and give birth.
CNN did not acknowledge the controversy that this event has caused initially. Instead, they painted the couple as a normal family with traditional values. If anything, this article was a celebration of transgender issues and extremely biased towards the LGBTQ cause, Charisma News reports.
Some viewers were quick to congratulate the couple on social media during an interview on This Morning last week, but others were less comfortable with the family dynamic, with one describing it as ‘just weird’.
But Trystan, who said he and Biff are hoping they will ‘expand people’s ideas’ by sharing their story, said he believed ‘a lot of men would love to carry a child’.
marvin@ugchristiannews.com
