Spanish ‘man’ is pregnant with twins
“I am six-and-a-half weeks pregnant,” Ruben Noe Coronado Jimenez, initially named Estefania, told the popular magazine Pronto, saying he took treatment to restart his menstrual cycle.
In photos posted on his blog, where he also wrote about the pregnancy, Coronado has a shaved head and a beard.
He said he had retained his female status to be able to undergo fertility treatment, but would start the administrative process this month to officially change his gender to male in accordance with newly passed legislation.
As a result, Coronado said, he would give birth as a man.
A law that went into effect last year allows Spaniards suffering from “a sexual identity problem” and undergoing hormonal or endocrinal treatment to change their sexual status without undergoing surgery or a sex change.
The insemination took place at a private clinic, Coronado told the magazine, adding that if all went well he would give birth by Caesarean section in September.
Coronado fell pregnant after undergoing fertility treatment when doctors told his girlfriend, the mother of two children from a previous relationship, she couldn’t have any more children.
He is the first Spanish transsexual to fall pregnant and it is thought he will become the world’s first transsexual father of twins if everything goes to plan. He will bring the twins up with his partner Esperanza Ruiz, 43. He plans to give birth at a hospital in Barcelona after moving to the area from Malaga two months ago. Coronado, an epileptic who was adopted as a child, said: “It’s like being born with three hands. You take advantage of them while you have them and you get rid of one of them when they get in the way.”
Coronado said “he” would not sell his story “now or in the future, but admitted that he was “thinking of selling the picture everyone’s going to want of me looking pregnant. If I don’t do it, someone else will and they’ll make a fortune”.
Last year, Thomas Beatie, an American, made headlines round the world after giving birth to a girl.
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