A trans man discovers he is 5 months pregnant shortly before sex reassignment surgery

In recent days, a crucial case of gender reassignment has become popular in Italy: a trans man identified by local media with the fictitious name “Marco” She found out she was 5 months pregnant during her transition process.

The discovery occurred during studies carried out in a hospital in Rome after a mastectomy (removal of the breast) and before a hysterectomy (removal of the uterus).

Marco, who suffered from dysphoria and did not recognize himself in his body, was about to take one of the last steps of his transition without realizing he had a baby in his belly. It was later discovered that her pregnancy was the result of a voluntary relationship she had with a man.

The surprise was enormousboth for Marco and for the Italian media.

“A female body subjected to hormone therapy with testosterone should not be able to be fertilized,” he told La Repubblica, the outlet that reported the news. Matilde Vigneripsychiatrist and psychoanalyst, currently consultant at the Gender Dysphoria Clinic of the University of Palermo (Italy).

Marco’s transition process was so advanced that his gender change was already included in his registration documents.

The doctor Julia Xenophonfor his part, he declared to La Repubblica that they had to suspend his hormone therapy because otherwise the fetus could have been at risk.

“It’s difficult to talk about it in abstract terms, but it all depends on when you stop the doses of testosterone the person is taking,” the doctor explained.

A new “frontier” in Italy

“We are facing a new frontier and it will not be easy to understand it. But transparency already exists, especially in the United States, where there are already a good number of children of transgender men,” said Vigneri.

Marco is expected to continue with her pregnancy and become “biological mother and legal father”reports La Repubblica. This is the first case of “daddy seahorse” in Italy (this is how transgender men who carry children are known).

“It will be a shock,” said Vigneri after recalling that in his country homosexual families “still have no rights”. “Imagine a child born in such special circumstances”.

The fury of the conservative sector

Marco’s case aroused the anger of the most conservative sectors. Tonini Brandipresident of an Italian Catholic foundation, said he hopes Marco decides to definitively stop therapy.

“The gender fluid theory is totally crazy. It goes against science and nature. “This case challenges gender theories because it shows that a woman is a woman,” Brandi protested.

Lucio Malansenator of Forza Italia, agrees with the religious: he spoke of”celebration of female body mutilation” and insists on calling Marco a woman.

It should be noted that La Repubblica also wrote that Marco today finds himself being “a man and at the same time a future mother”.

“Italian law allows abortion after 90 days only in the case of serious fetal defects or significant risk to the mother’s health, but the psychological stress of an unusual motherhood could justify a therapeutic abortion,” Vigneri specified.