The 27-year-old university graduate, who was born a woman but has had treatment to change his gender, gave birth to a girl in March last year, and admitted he had had to cope with concerns from his family. He said his parents took the pregnancy well but added: “They seemed to be OK but I am worried they may try and ‘convert’ me back to the way I was because of the perceived ‘mental health’ of the baby. “My mum’s already told me I’d be a good mummy and I said ‘no, I’ll be a good daddy’. However, he also revealed that another member of the family, an aunt, had not been so supportive. He said: “She wanted to know if I was going to stop being silly and become a woman again and if I was going to get rid of the silly new name I’d adopted.
She wondered how I was going to cope when I was going against society in this manner, ‘men don’t have babies’!” The man made his comments on a blog he wrote, which has now been removed from the internet. He was born a woman but had been living as a man for five years. He had legally changed his name and gender and had been receiving hormone treatment, but decided to attempt to conceive with his male partner, from whom he has now separated. The man said he was keen to remain anonymous because he did not think the publicity would be good for his daughter and revealed that his history as a woman is not known to some of his friends.
