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Dad Gives Birth to Baby Boy After Transitioning—’Dream Come True’
Newsweek ^ | October 24, 2026 | Lucy Notarantonio

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


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KEYWORDS: freaks; freaksversusnormals; insanity; lgbtq; liberaltruth; linguisticgymnastics; lucynotarantonio; mentalillness; notarantonio; she; transgender; transtruth; xyxx

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1 posted on 10/25/2026 4:44:31 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Oh puh-leeze.

A mentally ill woman who affects a man’s name gave birth.

I’m done with this crap.


2 posted on 10/25/2026 4:45:43 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda estv)
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TRANSLATION: Female pretending to be a man gets pregnant and has a baby.


3 posted on 10/25/2026 4:47:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The right of the Democrats to embezzle elections shall not be infringed. )
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To: FreedomPoster

Let’s see. Wait a minute. Why bother?


4 posted on 10/25/2026 4:47:46 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: lowbridge

It’s a woman with no boobs who pretends to be a guy.


5 posted on 10/25/2026 4:48:42 PM PDT by Aria (Voted for Trump 2016, 2020 & 10/22/2024 )
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To: lowbridge

That had to hurt.


6 posted on 10/25/2026 4:50:01 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: lowbridge

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.


7 posted on 10/25/2026 4:50:04 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: lowbridge

So amazing! We truly live in interesting times.


8 posted on 10/25/2026 4:51:15 PM PDT by JZelle
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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


9 posted on 10/25/2026 4:51:57 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: FreedomPoster
I’m done with this crap.

Two old sayings are coming into my mind more often:

The end of the world is nigh.

Goodbye, cruel world.

10 posted on 10/25/2026 4:52:36 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: lowbridge

Why do they think everybody else is stupid? Because if you play dumb, you might as well be stupid.


11 posted on 10/25/2026 4:52:39 PM PDT by sopo
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To: Aria

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.


12 posted on 10/25/2026 4:53:10 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: lowbridge
While he always dreamed of becoming a parent, he never expected he would one day carry and give birth to his own child.

The author wrote that without ever questioning how "he" got pregnant, carried, and delivered a baby.

13 posted on 10/25/2026 4:53:15 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You are confusing NewsWeak.


14 posted on 10/25/2026 4:53:38 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Jamestown1630
There’s nothing special about a biological female becoming pregnant and giving birth

Well, there's a line I never expected to see on FR.

15 posted on 10/25/2026 4:54:29 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: lowbridge

“I too, was once a man living inside the body of a female. Then I was born.”


16 posted on 10/25/2026 4:57:49 PM PDT by Iron Munro (For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he)
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To: lowbridge
’Dream Come True’

Try dystopian nightmare and abomination.
17 posted on 10/25/2026 4:58:57 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Jamestown1630
There’s nothing special about a biological female becoming pregnant and giving birth.

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

18 posted on 10/25/2026 4:59:19 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We need an automatic Crazy-to-English translator


19 posted on 10/25/2026 4:59:24 PM PDT by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: lowbridge

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.


20 posted on 10/25/2026 5:02:00 PM PDT by Iron Munro (For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he)
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