The couple made history
last year when the transgender man was impregnated by transgender woman, and
now, four months after giving birth to their first child, Fernando Machado, who
was born a woman and his partner Diane Rodriguez who was born a man
have revealed they want to expand their brood.
The new parents, from
Ecuador, have opened up about life with their new baby after becoming the first
transgender couple to fall pregnant in South America.‘Being a mother was never
something I thought I would do because I am a transsexual,’ Rodriguez said.
‘The law before demanded that to be recognised as a woman you had to be
castrated.’ The couple have kept their fans updated with the pregnancy journey
and even shared pictures from the maternity ward when Mr Machado gave birth in
June. ‘We live as man and woman. I’m a transfeminine woman and Fernando is a
transmasculine man. The process to get here was complex for each of us, she
said’.