Britain’s first pregnant man gives birth to girl
LONDON: A 21-year-old man has become the first in Britain to give birth after he put his sex transition on hold to get pregnant by a sperm donor.
Hayden Cross, who made headlines around the world earlier this year when he announced he was pregnant by a sperm donor, has given birth to a girl.
Cross told The Sun that daughter Trinity-Leigh is his “angel”. Cross gave birth by caesarean. The girl was born on June 16 at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.
He had been living legally as a man for three years and was already partway through hormone treatment to transform from a woman to a man.
But the full transition was paused after the statefunded National Health Service refused to carry out a £4,000 process to freeze his eggs — which he hoped would help him to have kids in the future. The former supermarket worker instead found a sperm donor via Facebook and became successfully pregnant.
“She’s perfect in every way...she is so good. I’m so lucky,” Cross was quoted as saying. Following the birth, Cross now plans to return to complete his gender realignment as soon as possible. Thomas Beatie became the first man to give birth in the US in 2008. Born a woman, he had a partial sex change but kept his womb and was able to conceive.