Kerala trans-couple set to welcome baby next month

Ziya Paval, a dancer, took to Instagram and announced that her partner, Zahhad, is now eight months pregnant.

Kozhikode: A transgender couple in Kerala has announced that they are expecting a baby next month, in possibly the first such pregnancy of a trans person in the country.

 

Also Read

• Pregnant woman, husband killed as car goes up in flames in Kerala
• Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan walks out of Uttar Pradesh jail on bail 
• Those who are born, eat and drink in India should be called ‘Hindu’: Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad

---

View this post on Instagram

 

A post shared by Ziya Paval (@paval19)

Ziya Paval, a dancer, took to Instagram and announced that her partner, Zahhad, is now eight months pregnant.

“We are about to realise my dream of becoming a mother and his dream of becoming a father. An eight-month-old foetus is now in (Zahhad’s) belly… From what we came to know, this is the first trans man’s pregnancy in India…,” Paval said in the Instagram post.

 

View this post on Instagram

 

A post shared by Arya Indira Sankar (@arya__indira)

The couple, who have been living together for the past three years, were undergoing hormone therapy.

However, Zahhad, who was transitioning to become a man, has stalled it to conceive a baby.

Zahhad was undergoing the process for breast removal surgery that was stopped for the pregnancy.

Paval has thanked her family and the doctors for their support.