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Transgender man Trystan Reese gives birth to baby boy name Leo<\/a> with partner Biff Chaplow. \u2018Love is possible,\u2019 he says. So is \u2018being a loving family. Trystan Reese, from Portland, Oregon, was born female in 1983 but started taking hormone therapy almost a decade ago. On July 14, after 30 hours of labor, Reese gave birth to Leo, a 9.5-pound baby who he says is in great health. He became a trans man who also retained his female reproductive organs. Mr Reese suffered a miscarriage the last time he got pregnant and believed he had missed his chance to have children of his own.<\/p>\n

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\nLeo is the couple\u2019s first biological child, Trystan and Biff also have two adopted children. Years earlier, they had adopted Chaplow\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Reese and Chaplow documented the pregnancy in blog posts and on social media, hoping to demystify what it means for a transgender man to give birth and to create a new sense of normalcy for people in similar situations.<\/p>\n

Mr Reese told News channel “I would say it’s unique. I understand that people are not used to two men having a biological child,”<\/p>\n

\u201cThe moment he was born was just like a pure moment of bliss, like the happiest moment of my life. To see the very beginning of Leo, of his life, was just like amazing,\u201d Mr Chaplow added.<\/p>\n

Whilst family and friends had always supported the couple\u2019s decision to have a baby, they\u2019e sometimes been on the receiving end of nasty comments online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Transgender man Trystan Reese gives birth to baby boy name Leo with partner Biff Chaplow. \u2018Love is possible,\u2019 he says. 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