Transgender man who fell pregnant while transitioning after a ‘Grindr one-night stand’ reveals he’s raising his daughter with a new husband – and wants MORE children before having full gender reassignment surgery
A transgender man has revealed how he fell pregnant while transitioning after having a one-night stand with a man.
Now, 1-year-old Ronan is being raised by Schade and his husband, Jordan.
“It was a huge shock, but I fell in love with my bump,” said Schade, who called giving birth “one of the most masculine things” he’s ever done.
Ash Patrick Schade, 28, from Huntington, West Virginia, had been two years into transitioning and was taking testosterone and estrogen blockers when he discovered he was pregnant in February 2020, following a ‘Grindr hook-up’.
After finding out he was pregnant, Ash, a mental health worker and PhD student, stopped hormone treatment to allow him to carry a child.
A month into pregnancy, Schade met his current husband, Jordan, 28. Eight months later, Ronan was born in October 2020. Now the pair are raising the child together, with the support of friends, the trans community and the Satanic Temple church, of which he’s a member.
But there’s more in store for this unconventional family. The father of one, who underwent surgery to have his breasts removed following Ronan’s birth, has said that he now wants more children and is holding off on a full gender-reassignment procedure to do so.
Ash, who was previously married to another man, explained:
‘I was going through a rough time from 2019 and 2020 and struggled with my mental health due to going through a divorce.
Ash said he ‘felt like he was in the wrong body’ for ‘as long as he could remember’ and was sent to conversion therapy by his parents as a child, in the hope it would ‘fix’ him.
Ash began transitioning in 2018.
He feared his mental health may take a turn for the worse when he discovered the pregnancy but had the support of his husband, Jordan, who he married in February 2021, four months after Ronan’s birth.
Ash continued: ‘Nobody wanted to take my case when I first found out I was pregnant. I was such a high-risk case, with a lot of potential for the pregnancy to go awry.
Ash also credited the support of his friends, the online gay and trans community and the Satanic Temple, of which he is a member.
He said he is looking forward to telling Ronan how she was born as she grows up.
Source:
dailymail.co.uk, metro.co.uk,
