Posted on 10/25/2026 4:44:31 PM PDT by lowbridge
When Chase Minnema, 26, first began questioning his gender identity as a teenager, he wasn't sure what the future would look like. While he always dreamed of becoming a parent, he never expected he would one day carry and give birth to his own child.
Now, the Virginia-based video processor and his partner, James Brewer, 29, are settling into life with their 6-week-old son, whom they describe as happy, healthy and deeply loved.
"Being parents is the best experience of our lives," they told Newsweek.
Minnema, started to question his identity when he was 14, initially he wondered if he was a lesbian or simply more masculine than his peers. Two years later, he realized something deeper was going on.
"I felt different," he said. "Then I realized I was supposed to be a man."
He began hormone therapy in August 2016 after graduating from high school and later underwent top surgery.
"I'm super lucky with my family," Minnema said. "Everyone was welcoming."
While he largely avoided bullying in person, he encountered negativity online and said dating has sometimes presented challenges.
"I am upfront about who I am," he said. "It has created issues before as not everyone is OK with it."
"It’s his heart that I care about," Brewer said. "He is a person; I let him be himself.”
Minnema had envisioned children in his future, although he never expected he might have a biological child himself.
"I always wanted kids. I didn't think I'd have one naturally," he said. "But it happened and I figured I still can, so why not have a biological child?"
Brewer said becoming a father had been a lifelong dream.
"Since I was a kid, I have always wanted to be a dad, I'd help my cousin with her children."
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Oh puh-leeze.
A mentally ill woman who affects a man’s name gave birth.
I’m done with this crap.
TRANSLATION: Female pretending to be a man gets pregnant and has a baby.
Let’s see. Wait a minute. Why bother?
It’s a woman with no boobs who pretends to be a guy.
That had to hurt.
Oh good grief.
There’s nothing special about a biological female becoming pregnant and giving birth.
This is a stupid story and probably absolutely untrue.
So amazing! We truly live in interesting times.
Amazing! A woman whose mutilation extended only to her breasts bore a child in her retained! Who would have thought such a miracle possible? Now her kid can settle down to having a nut for a mother. It’s ok, though. He’ll be brainwashed from infancy and won’t know the difference
Two old sayings are coming into my mind more often:
The end of the world is nigh.
Goodbye, cruel world.
Why do they think everybody else is stupid? Because if you play dumb, you might as well be stupid.
It is like when i hold a yard sale and get rid of a tool I think I won’t ever use. Just as they are about to become really useful she has them lopped off in ‘top’ surgery.
The author wrote that without ever questioning how "he" got pregnant, carried, and delivered a baby.
You are confusing NewsWeak.
Well, there's a line I never expected to see on FR.
“I too, was once a man living inside the body of a female. Then I was born.”
My takeaway from this story is that men who "transition" to women have to surgically remove their male genetalia, but women who "transition" to men can keep theirs.
-PJ
We need an automatic Crazy-to-English translator
You have aright to live out your own mentally deranged life.
You do not have a right to have the government or leftist culture force those of us who are sane to join in your hallucinations.
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