A transgender couple from Kerala’s Kozhikode are expecting their first child in March, marking a first in more ways than one. Zahad (23), reportedly India’s first trans man to become pregnant through conception, and his three-year partner, transwoman Ziya Paval, will father the child (21).
Zahad and Ziya, who began their gender transition two years ago, shared the joyful news on Instagram on Wednesday.
India’s first transgender parents-to-be, are nervous but equally excited to welcome their baby by March.
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“Even though I was not a woman by birth or by body, I had a feminine dream inside me to hear a baby call me’mother’…. We haven’t seen each other in three years. He (Zahad) has a dream of becoming a father, just as I have of becoming a mother, and today an eight-month-old life is moving in his belly with his full consent… As far as we know, this is India’s first TRAN’S MAN PREGNANCY,” Ziya wrote in Malayalam in the caption of her pregnancy announcement post.
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Zahad, an accountant by trade, is in the middle of his third trimester. He was born female and is currently undergoing hormone therapy to transition to a man. He did, however, share his process for embracing parenthood early last year.
Ziya, a classical dance teacher, was born a man and is now transitioning into a woman.
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Zahhad was undergoing breast removal surgery, which had been halted due to the pregnancy.
Ziya has expressed gratitude to her family and the doctors for their assistance.
The trans-couple has decided to feed the baby breast milk from the milk bank.
According to reports, the couple had previously planned to adopt a child and inquired about the procedure. However, because they are a transgender couple, the legal proceedings were difficult for them. The idea that Zahad, who was still biologically female, could conceive a child naturally occurred to them, though Zahad was hesitant to revert to the feminity that he was in the process of rejecting. But Ziya’s (born male) desire to become a mother swayed Zahad’s decision.
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