Transgender Man Gives Birth To Baby Fathered By His Transgender Female Partner

Transgendered male and female have given birth to their naturally conceived baby named “Caroate”-the snail.

It wasn’t your typical pregnancy, per se, because Fernando who carried the baby lived as a male transgender. Fernando Machado was born Maria in Ecuador, where being transgender is not easy. Though he hasn’t undergone gender reassignment surgery, he is living life like the man he wishes to be rather than as a woman.

Diane Rodriguez who was previously a man called Luis, never thought that motherhood would be in the cards for her. “Being a mother was never something I thought I would do because I am a transsexual… The law before demanded that to be recognized as a woman you had to be castrated.”

Diane works as an LGBT activist and has been very vocal about transgender rights. She was the first transgender candidate in Ecuador to run for Congress.

In an interview for BBC, Fernando said of realizing they’d have a baby, “I started crying with happiness, fear, and dread, all at once. It was the most beautiful moment.”

In many ways, they’re no different than any other family. “We live as man and woman. I’m a transfeminine woman and Fernando is a transmasculine man,” Diane told interviewers. “The process to get here was complex for each of us. Knowing it’s our right, we decided to add another member to our family.”