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The couple had – to the best of their abilities – timed the pregnancy so it would coincide with the Canadian winter, leaving MacDonald wrapped in figure-concealing coats and sweaters just as his pregnancy was beginning to show. “Throughout the pregnancy, I was able to continue presenting as male,” he says. After he became pregnant, the effects of the hormone endured, leaving him with facial hair and a low voice. MacDonald stopped taking testosterone in order to begin trying to conceive. ‘Throughout the pregnancy, I was able to continue presenting as male.’ Photograph: Trevor MacDonald They soon realised that there was a simpler path: as MacDonald had never felt the need to have a hysterectomy, the pair had the anatomy needed to make a baby. The pair briefly considered adoption, but worried that the odds would be stacked against them as a transgender man and a gay man. His relationship with his partner blossomed and a happier, more confident MacDonald began contemplating starting a family for the first time ever. About a year later, he had chest surgery.Īs his body fell in line with his gender identity, the stress that had dogged him for much of his life melted away. MacDonald, who lives in rural Manitoba, began transitioning in his early 20s, legally changing his name and taking testosterone. If it’s the wrong body, why are you doing this with your body? But it’s so much more nuanced than that.” “When someone who has only seen that narrative hears about a trans person becoming pregnant, they think, well that doesn’t make any sense. “Our stories are so much more diverse than that one phrase,” the 31-year-old says over coffee during a recent trip to Toronto for book readings.
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MacDonald points to the often trotted out narrative of a transgender person as someone who was born in the wrong body. His recently published memoir, Where’s the Mother: Stories of a Transgender Dad, aims to shed light on gender diversity in parents through his story of being both male and pregnant. While south of the border the controversial “bathroom bill” stirs up a political firestorm, in Canada MacDonald is seeking to broaden the conversation, sharing his own experience as a transgender man who carried two babies to term and breastfed both of them. Carrying a baby never felt gendered to MacDonald.