Awards
- Commended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (LGBTQ+ Nonfiction) 2021
Overview
Trystan Reese is a gay transgender man married to Biff, a gay man who is not transgender. The young couple had been together a little over a year when they learned that Biff's one-year-old niece, Hailey, and three-year-old nephew, Riley, were about to be removed from their home by Child Protective Services because of abuse and neglect. Trystan and Biff made an immediate decision to take them in. Overnight, they became parents to two tiny, scared kids and took the first steps toward building a safe, loving, and nurturing home for their new family. After five years of legal battles they adopted Hailey and Riley, and soon after, decided to grow their family biologically with a child that Trystan would carry. He had a pre-pregnancy check-up, stopped taking testosterone, became pregnant, and in 2017 gave birth to Leo. In How We Do Family, Trystan weaves together his personal story of finding self-love, growing into his relationship and role as an adoptive parent, carrying and giving birth to a biological child, and raising confident and socially aware children - all while sharing lessons he's learned about being the best parent, partner, and person that you can be. While there are countless details that make Trystan's non-traditional family unique, there are many more ways that they are just like any other.
Full Product Details
Author: Trystan Reese
Publisher: The Experiment LLC
Imprint: The Experiment LLC
Weight: 0.300kg
ISBN: 9781615197569
ISBN 10: 1615197567
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 02 August 2021
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This narrative of an extraordinary family describes what it's like to be a trans father, a pregnant man, an adoptive father--what it's like to invent and enact new relational structures. Trystan Reese writes with great tenderness and compassion, and also with a well-considered agenda of political and social activism. This rollicking book will release love that might otherwise have remained buried; it limns the exact quality of joy that can inhere in inventing not only yourself, but also the world you live in. --Andrew Solomon, National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon and Far from the Tree You can't meet Trystan and not like him. The same goes for this book. First of all, he spelled everything right. Those correctly spelled words make a great read about Trystan and his pregnancy. Yes. His. See I told you this book was going to be good. You're gonna learn stuff but you'll like it. --Willam
Author Information
Trystan Reese launched into the public eye as 'the pregnant man' in 2017, when the story of his family gained international media attention. He is the Director of Family Formation at Family Equality, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing equality for LGBTQ families. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his partner Biff and their three kids.
