Author Logan Brown, a 27-year-old who was born female but now identifies as a transgender man, is pregnant, and his picture on the cover of British Glamour Magazine’s digital issue celebrating Pride Month is making big waves. It’s the classic picture of a woman cradling her baby bump—but with a big difference. Brown looks like a man.
Logan Brown unexpectedly became pregnant with partner Bailey J Mills, a non-binary drag performer in the U.K., while taking a break from testosterone treatments due to health reasons, the fashion magazine said.
The interview, conducted, by Glamour’s Chloe Laws two weeks before Brown gave birth to a daughter, details Brown’s “accidental” pregnancy experience as a transgender man.
Laws notes that Brown’s pregnancy and his relationship with Mills caused an uproar and they became the targets of “rampant transphobia” from people online who repeatedly commented that “men can’t get pregnant” on Brown’s social media posts.
Brown’s reply was succinct: “I’m a pregnant trans man and I do exist. No matter what anyone says, I’m living proof.”
“I’ve been brought up in a very close-knit family, and so to bring a baby into the world in a queer relationship is the best feeling ever,” Brown said in the interview. “I feel like we’ll be able to love and appreciate each other, and my daughter will be able to grow up knowing that she’ll always be loved and accepted for whoever she is. And I think that’s a really important thing for her to be around.”
Brown, who is writing a children’s book called “My Daddy’s Belly: The Miracle of Male Birth,” described suffering from “really bad mental health” issues as a child. After coming out as lesbian, Brown wanted to explore an “identity of being trans” and now identifies as queer.
He was on a break from testosterone treatments when he had “this weird feeling” about the possibility of being pregnant. “I took a pregnancy test and it was positive…it was like my whole world just stopped. That everything, all my manlihood that I’ve worked hard for, for so long, just completely felt like it was erased”.
“I spent so much time feeling shame and being hard on myself until I thought, ‘You can enjoy this process or make it really difficult for yourself.’ I’m a pregnant man, and we’re very lucky, and I’m proud to do what we’re doing.”
The reaction from the public was at times ferocious. Former trans influencer and detransition activist Oli London tweeted, “Just when you thought Woke Companies could not sink any lower- Glamour UK magazine has featured this ‘pregnant man’ on the cover to kick off Pride Month. Time to BudLight @GlamourMagUK.”
“So, a pregnant straight woman for @GlamourMagUK’s Pride month cover. That makes complete sense these days. Pride month has become a competition amongst trans panderers to see who can most completely lose the plot about what Pride was created to commemorate and celebrate,” gay rights activist Fred Sargeant tweeted.
Conservative influencer Classically Abby chose to express herself through mockery: “Hey look, a pregnant woman with an elective mastectomy who can’t breastfeed her child because she’s cosplaying as a man.”
Sen. Josh Hawley’s, R-Mo., communications director Abigail Monroe tweeted out a photo of Brown’s forthcoming book with the comment, “A biological woman is pregnant but thinks she’s a man and wrote this book. The elites and media clap like seals promoting it. Is no one brave enough to pause and say, ‘Wait. This is insane?”
Others, like Piers Morgan, don’t see what the hype is about, asking “Living proof of what? Logan’s a biological female who got pregnant, as hundreds of millions of biological females do each year… why are you presenting this as a man getting pregnant which is biologically impossible?”
Deborah Joseph, GLAMOUR’s European Editorial Director said in a statement obtained by the Intercept, “When we first met Logan and heard his incredible story, we were blown away by his strength and courage. We knew he would be the perfect cover star for our June Pride issue, as a shining example of empowerment, inclusivity and equality.”
