Mother Science

Mother Science
By Belle Boggs
Guernica Magazine

AD: Marisa Nakasone

"Online, it isn’t hard to find communities of young transgender men and women expressing grief and struggle around reproduction—as well as hope for acceptance and future treatments. On a Tumblr page devoted to transgender pregnancy, a user named transguysuggestions posted a list of reminders geared toward people with a binary concept of pregnancy:

Trans men who want kids are still men.
Trans men who get pregnant are still men.
Trans men who try to get pregnant because they want children and their partner can’t carry are still men.
Trans men who don’t discover that they’re men until after they already have kids are still men.
Wanting to or choosing to have kids doesn’t invalidate your gender."