Ash Patrick Schade, from West Virginia, and husband Jordan have a daughter in their 1-year-old, but the family is not traditionally family.
Ashe is a transgender person, born female, who has been undergoing formal transgender treatment since 2018 and has now had her breasts removed.
In terms of appearance, it is not much different from the average male, and he has completed the gender conversion.
Ash's husband, Jordan, is a homosexual.
What is surprising is that the daughter of the two, Ronan, is neither an adopted child nor a child born by the two looking for a surrogate, but a child born by Ash himself...
Ash had a very bad childhood, and for as long as he could remember, he wondered about his biological gender, "Ever since I had a memory, I felt like I was living in the wrong body. ”
But regarding Ash's doubts in this regard, his parents did not face the problem, but felt that Ash was something wrong in his head, and sent him to the psychiatric department to receive "conversion treatment", hoping that the doctor could help "repair" Ash.
As a result, no therapy has interrupted Ash's inner doubts and disagreement with his biological gender, and Ash's idols are all men, and he worships male idols who really do deeds and help others.
During school, Ash also boldly and rebelliously dressed himself as a little boy, wrapping his developing breasts in strips of cloth, cutting his ultra-short hair, always wearing gothic dark clothes, imitating the rough voice of boys, and telling his classmates that his name was "Ash" (in fact, Ash's real name was the typical girl name "Ashley" Ashley).
As a result, Ash's image transformation effect is good, the classmates in the school really think that he is a boy, but also think that he is a little cool, and among the girls, Ash's popularity is also very high, and even some girls have talked to him about love.
However, a school-wide photo conference exposed Ashe's elaborate lies. That day, Ash's mother heard that the whole school was going to take pictures together, insisted that Ash put on a pink two-piece suit, and forcibly sent Ash to school.
Ash's "new look" stunned the whole school, and Ash's teacher directly told the surrounding Ash that Ash was actually a girl...
Overnight, Ash went from being a popular cool boy to a discredited "handicapped child," and his girlfriend's mother even approached Ash's mom and told her to take care of Ash, stay away from her daughter, and not discredit her daughter.
Since then, Ash has grown up in severe gender anxiety, because he does not understand what his problems are, and he cannot change his dislike of female dress, the female body he has, and even tried suicide at one point.
Ash completed his Ph.D. a few years ago, and he was married before he was transgender, but the marriage brought him more distress.
The marriage ended with the divorce of Ash and her husband, who suffered from a serious mental illness and received psychological counseling and treatment for a long time.
After the divorce, Ash finally began hormone therapy and officially began the gender transition.
And his daughter just appeared at this special moment!
In early 2020, Ash, who had been taking testosterone and estrogen blockers, landed on the same-sex dating software Grindr, met with the other netizen and had a relationship. Originally thought it was just a simple date, but a few weeks later Ash found out she was pregnant!
Normally, it is difficult for a woman undergoing hormone therapy for men to conceive a baby, because these hormones greatly reduce the likelihood of ovulation and implantation of fertilized eggs in women, and Ash's unintended pregnancy can be described as "winning the lottery".
The child's father was not going to be responsible for the unexpected pregnancy, and Ashe was shocked and seriously thinking about whether to leave the unexpected arrival of the child.
Just when he was struggling, he met Jordan, the same age, now her husband.
Jordan and Ash quickly fell in love and became together, and Jordan was very supportive of Ash's decision to give birth and worked hard to help Ash unblock the ups and downs of her psychological problems.
Although it is psychologically decided to give birth to a child, Ash's physical condition makes this special pregnancy case more special - because of obesity and some medical history, Ash's pregnancy process may be terminated at any time, and in severe cases, both mother and child will be in danger.
As a result, many doctors did not dare to take Ash's case, for fear that Ash would take responsibility for something wrong. Fortunately, later, some doctors were finally willing to accept Ash, a "pregnant woman", and they were also very concerned about Ash's situation, often helping Ash to eliminate physical and mental problems during pregnancy.
During that time, the global epidemic broke out, and various shortages of supplies and lockdowns also made Ash's pregnancy more difficult.
Luckily, the long pregnancy came to an abrupt end, and in October 2020, Ash gave birth to a lovely daughter in the hospital, named Ronan.
When Ronan was born, Ashwan's feelings intersected to tears.
Speaking of childbirth, Ashe commented that "it may sound counterintuitive, but childbirth feels like one of the most masculine things I've ever done." ”
He also praised the first class of midwives and nurses for knowing that he was transgender, and were very friendly and supportive to him.
After giving birth to the baby, Ash also continued the transgender program non-stop, removing the chest, but he was ready to postpone the full sex reassignment surgery because he planned to have several more children with "true love" Jordan!
After the birth of the daughter, the family of three was very harmonious and loving.
Four months later, Ash and Jordan also entered the palace of marriage.
Nowadays, when many people see Ash taking her daughter out alone, they will praise such a cute child mother for being beautiful, or when the whole family goes out together, there are unknown passers-by who ask where they adopted the daughter, and Ash has to repeat his complicated story to everyone over and over again...
Ash was prepared to tell her where her birth was "verbatim" when her daughter was older, and did not intend to tell her daughter a white lie or only let her know part of the truth.
Finally, I hope that the child can grow up healthy and happy,
I also hope that this family will be harmonious!