Ash Patrick Schade has spent the last two years transitioning, taking testosterone and oestrogen blockers. The mental health worker and PHD student, from Huntington, West Virginia, US, was shocked by the news at first but then paused hormone treatments to give birth to his daughter, Ronan Shiva. Ash now co-parents Ronan with his current husband Jordan, 28 who is a full-time stay-at-home step-dad. I ended up going on Grindr hook-ups and accidentally fell pregnant. At times, the pregnancy was difficult.
Ash recalls medical staff were not well informed about his situation. I hid my boobs and identified as a boy at school and went by Ash, and wore gothic dark clothes as a way to hide how I looked. Ash feared his mental health may take a turn for the worse when he discovered the pregnancy.
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