Seahorses: Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender-Expansive Pregnancy, Simon Knaphus
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A powerful anthology sharing the stories of trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people who have navigated pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenting. Through personal essays and round-table discussions, Seahorses explores conception, loss, healthcare, family structures, and the joy and resilience of queer parenthood. An essential resource for trans and gender-expansive communities—and for anyone seeking to understand pregnancy beyond the gender binary.
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Seahorses: Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender-Expansive Pregnancy
Edited by Simon Knaphus — Paperback, November 18, 2025
Seahorses is a groundbreaking, deeply compassionate anthology that brings together the voices of trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people who have experienced pregnancy in all its complexity—its joys, its challenges, and its profound transformations.
What can gender-expansive parents expect from pregnancy and early parenthood? How do friends, family, and medical professionals support—or fail—them? What new models of family are flourishing within queer and trans communities?
Across personal narratives, interviews, and collaborative round-table discussions, this collection explores every part of the reproductive journey: conception, fertility treatments, abortion, miscarriage, navigating healthcare systems, childbirth, postpartum life, the legal and political realities surrounding trans pregnancy, and the fierce, tender work of early parenting.
These storytellers illuminate the resilience, creativity, and community that sustain them—and the joy that emerges when people are able to build families on their own terms. Thoughtful, candid, and beautifully varied, Seahorses is both a vital resource for trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive readers and an invitation for cis audiences to understand gender-expansive pregnancy beyond stereotypes and misinformation.
Featuring contributions from Amari Ayomide, Amber Hickey, Felix Aster, g k somers, Halo Dawn, Jacoby Ballard, J. Workman, Jamie Cayley, Jess F. Gutfreund, Kara Johnson Martone, Kathy Slaughter, LÍfthrasir Green, Aakash Kishore, Simone Kolysh, Tom, Zillah Rose, and editor Simon Knaphus.
Groundbreaking, affirming, and full of heart, Seahorses is essential reading for anyone interested in queer and trans family-building, reproductive justice, and the expansive possibilities of gender and parenthood.
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