India’s First Trans Man Pregnancy; Kerala Trans Couple Blessed with a Child

Kozhikode: Ziya and Zahad, a transgender couple from Kerala’s Kozhikode were blessed with a baby at the local government medical college hospital. It is said to be the first childbirth by any transgender couple in India. Close friends of the couple shared the news on social media. The couple did not reveal the sex of their baby.

The baby grew in Zahad’s womb. This trans-couple is living together for the last three years.

Announcing the happy news on Instagram, Ziya wrote, “Though I was not a woman by birth or by my body, I had the feminine dream inside me to hear a baby calling me ‘mother’….It has been three years since we are together. Like my dream of becoming a mother, he (Zahad) has a dream of becoming a father, and today a life of eight months is moving in his belly with his full consent.”

Ziya was born a man and changed into a woman and Zahad was born a woman and transformed into a man. Zahad conceived the baby from Ziya as his transition process from a woman into a man was stalled for the baby and his uterus and some other organs were not removed.

Zahad is an accountant by profession, while Ziya is a dance teacher. After deciding to become a man after the baby is delivered, Zahad got ‘her’ breasts removed some time back. After the delivery, the couple is sourcing breast milk from the breast milk bank attached to the hospital.