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trans2009-09-15 10:14 pm
knightvision.livejournal.com) wrote in trans2009-09-15 10:14 pm
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So. Parenting.
Well hi there.
I have been wondering about this for a little bit now. I've been engaged for almost three years (with a plan to marry once my fiancee and I are financially stable enough), and it seems these days that the subject of being prospective parents has been showing up. Very frequently. Like an annoying neighbor with no other friends.
We're not doing this any time soon, of course. She's closing in on twenty-two and I'll be twenty-five in January. We'd rather like to dedicate our twenties to enjoying one another, finding our feet, enjoying one another even more through marriage, and further stabilizing my transition. And, you know, working to bring home all means of pig meat. No, babies will be more seriously discussed and planned upon once we've both successfully hurdled over thirty.
It is out of SHEER PRODDING CURIOSITY that I poke around and see if anyone is more knowledgeable than I am.
What are some of the options that folks such as myself are presented with as far as being a parent? I'm FTM, and almost two years into hormone therapy, so I am going to go right ahead and assume that all of those fun fertility functions down there are pretty much done for at this rate. Soooo egg transplant to get the best of both parents (from me to her) is probably not going to happen. And for the record, the very idea of being impregnated skeezes the living hell out of me. No, no way, out of the question, never.
I've heard that adoption is phenomenally rough. Prodding into personal life, possibly being rejected due to gender identity? Is that really the case, or am I reading into rubbish?
There really is no way at all to get a little bit of both of us into one baby, is there? Been hearing rumours about something involving DNA transfers but that seems awful unlikely to me, at least for the next ten to twenty years.
Honestly, I'm not pulling the ignorance card here - I'm just curious. Either way, I'd love to be a father in the future. I've come here a few times with some legit questions and you guys and gals are always willing to jump right in and offer what you know. So what do you know?
Ta in advance. :)
- Connor
I have been wondering about this for a little bit now. I've been engaged for almost three years (with a plan to marry once my fiancee and I are financially stable enough), and it seems these days that the subject of being prospective parents has been showing up. Very frequently. Like an annoying neighbor with no other friends.
We're not doing this any time soon, of course. She's closing in on twenty-two and I'll be twenty-five in January. We'd rather like to dedicate our twenties to enjoying one another, finding our feet, enjoying one another even more through marriage, and further stabilizing my transition. And, you know, working to bring home all means of pig meat. No, babies will be more seriously discussed and planned upon once we've both successfully hurdled over thirty.
It is out of SHEER PRODDING CURIOSITY that I poke around and see if anyone is more knowledgeable than I am.
What are some of the options that folks such as myself are presented with as far as being a parent? I'm FTM, and almost two years into hormone therapy, so I am going to go right ahead and assume that all of those fun fertility functions down there are pretty much done for at this rate. Soooo egg transplant to get the best of both parents (from me to her) is probably not going to happen. And for the record, the very idea of being impregnated skeezes the living hell out of me. No, no way, out of the question, never.
I've heard that adoption is phenomenally rough. Prodding into personal life, possibly being rejected due to gender identity? Is that really the case, or am I reading into rubbish?
There really is no way at all to get a little bit of both of us into one baby, is there? Been hearing rumours about something involving DNA transfers but that seems awful unlikely to me, at least for the next ten to twenty years.
Honestly, I'm not pulling the ignorance card here - I'm just curious. Either way, I'd love to be a father in the future. I've come here a few times with some legit questions and you guys and gals are always willing to jump right in and offer what you know. So what do you know?
Ta in advance. :)
- Connor