Story of our unique family.

Information about donations and legal rights. This is just a short post about some information on donations, also I will put links to some online information as well for you to go and research.  disclaimer: I am not an expert and am just passing on information I found as well as site for research if you are looking into having a baby through donations.   When looking for a sperm donor there are many organisations and sites like Pride Angles and just a baby many however charge along with sperm banks, this is normally a lot of money which, is not affordable for most people. The NHS do fund some IVF treatments but many couples especially those who are in same sex relationships and trans couples like us who need sperm donations, IVF is not available on the NHS.  There is however many free Facebook sites where there are sperm donors offing to help couples, single people and LGBT couples to have the opportunity to create a family. There are many things to consider when finding ...

Finding a donor.  We started researching all about how to track ovulation and getting pregnant, this was a new area to us and something that I found was not something that is well known. We had to take to trying to conceive Facebook pages which at first we were not accepted into due to being male. We had to privatly message admins of groups to explain we were trans men as a lot of these spaces are women only private groups. Which is understandable but at the same time being a tran male trying to access information and support felt like a battle. Some groups we were not accepting at all or if we were, then had to explain our background when trying to get support because we were faced with many women sadly not accept us because we were men into these groups.  This is not an area I remember being taught in school, which personally I believe is wrong because everyone should know how the body Anatomy works in order to achieve pregnancy as well as prevent it. Instead as teenagers we...

Our unique family. This is a series blog about how our journey to creating a family began, how we decided to bring children into our family. Why we choose the path of child birth rather then adoption. As well as transitioning not letting this stop us.  Firstly I will introduce us. I'm Shane a 25 year old trans man, my husband Ben is also a trans male. We both identify as men and use he/him pronouns. We have both been on testestrone and had top surgeries. We have three babies and two cat members in our family.  It all began when me and Ben met in 2016. Firstly we knew each other from a transgender support page on Facebook. We learnt we had mutual friends and had attend the same prides and events. We became friend firstly which then quickly processed to more. Our realionship did happen fast but we knew it was right. We moved in together after about 6 months. Got our own flat a year after being together and started to talk about our future family.  Even as friends we both kn...