Below are the best resources we could find on LGBTQIA Parents and transgender well being.
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Bianca and Nick Bowser, who were born male and female, respectively, conceived their two sons naturally. While the couple both identify as transgender, they have not gone through gender reassignment—which caused Nick to carry the pregnancies.
In a time when to most people “pregnancy” automatically means “motherhood,” what is it like to get pregnant, give birth, and breastfeed a child all while being an out transgender man? When Trevor MacDonald decided to start a family, he knew that the world was going to have questions for him.
As advocates for LGBTQ+ parenting, we LOVE to share other families’ stories. Biff and Trystan are a two-dad family with three kids: Riley, Hailey, and Leo. Trystan is a transgender man.
Krys Malcolm Belc’s visual memoir-in-essays explores how the experience of gestational parenthood—conceiving, birthing, and breastfeeding his son Samson—eventually clarified his gender identity. Krys Malcolm Belc has thought a lot about the interplay between parenthood and gender.
“Maybe instead of biology, I should be cursing the culture that taught me I’m less of a woman because I can’t have children.”
MISSION: We hope to provide the younger generations of LGBT people who struggle to envision raising a family, the hope and visibility that it is possible.
Between 25% and 50% of transgender adults in the U.S. have children. Some have kids before coming out as trans, others adopt or foster, and some use egg or sperm cells they’ve frozen—usually before starting hormone replacement therapy.
In this week’s episode, Imara welcomes incredible activists and mothers on to the show to commemorate the celebration of Mother’s Day on May 9th. Imara is first joined by Terri Edmonds, mother of Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells.
Breast specialist Dr. Kristi Funk shares how a transgender mom was able to use hormones to produce milk for her child.
When a parent transitions, the whole family goes on a journey. But how these parents feel about their kids never changes.
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