Transmasculine Individuals Navigate Pregnancy Amidst Challenges and Discrimination

Personal accounts highlight the need for greater understanding and support within the medical community and society at large.

Transmasculine individuals in the United States face significant challenges and discrimination when pregnant, including lack of understanding and support from the medical community, and societal prejudice.
Sam Guido, a transmasculine and nonbinary person, shared his experiences of pregnancy and parenthood, highlighting the difficulties he faced in finding a safe and trans-affirming primary care doctor, and the fear and vulnerability he felt within the medical system.
Guido's experiences underline the importance of access to birthing and postpartum spaces specifically for and led by trans people, as well as the need for reproductive health care at institutions knowledgeable of trans people.
Kayden Coleman, a gay Black transgender man, also shared his experiences of pregnancy, including ignorance from medical staff and the additional challenges he faced due to racism.
Both Guido and Coleman emphasized the need for greater understanding and support for pregnant transmasculine individuals, both within the medical community and society at large.