Man puts transition on hold to have baby

A 20-year-old British man will soon give birth after finding his sperm donor on Facebook. Hayden Cross, who has been living as a man for three years, has put his transition on hold to pursue his deep desire of becoming a parent, The Sun 

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2560070/british-man-20-will-be-the-first-to-give-birth-to-a-baby-thanks-to-sperm-donor-he-found-on-facebook/

reports. 

“I faced the prospect of not becoming the man I am supposed to be, physically, or a dad. So I didn’t feel like I had any choice but to have a baby now then get back to transitioning,” he told the publication.

Fortunately for him, he found a donor on Facebook and is now four months pregnant.

“In September I got pregnant by a sperm donation. I found the donor on the internet. I looked on Facebook for a group and found one — it’s been shut down now. I didn’t have to pay. The man came to my house, he passed me the sperm in a pot and I did it via a syringe.

“I felt I’d no choice, I couldn’t afford a proper clinic. I don’t know who the bloke was. To be honest I can’t remember anything about him. He wouldn’t even tell me his name. He didn’t want any contact. He said he was just doing it to help people. It was the first attempt and it worked. I was really lucky,” he added.

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Cross is not the first transgender to fall pregnant. In 2008, Thomas Beatie made headlines after appearing on Oprah Winfrey's show as a pregnant man. During an interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2008, Beatie, who lived as a female for the first 24 years of his life, said: “I actually opted not to do anything to my reproductive organs because I wanted to have a child one day. I see pregnancy as a process and it doesn’t define who I am.”

See a video of him and his wife during a pregnancy check-up on the Oprah show.