How Being Trans Prepared Me for Pregnancy

Growing up, I could never imagine being pregnant. Like many trans people, I dealt with puberty by creating a lot of mental space between myself and my body. I didn’t know what I was, but it couldn’t be this.

It’s not as if I was hurting for positive portrayals of femininity. In addition to my parents’ feminist politics, adults in my life spoke often of femininity as both divine and beautifully varied, from warrior women to Mother Earth. I liked these images, but they didn’t feel like me. Pregnancy and birth were especially disturbing, visceral acts that threatened the mental distance I’d constructed between myself and my physical form. Birth was for women, so it couldn’t be for me.

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