gestational father

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gestational father (plural gestational fathers)

  1. (neologism) Synonym of birthing father.
    • 2016, “List of Contributors”, in Stefan Horlacher, editor, Transgender and Intersex: Theoretical, Practical, and Artistic Perspectives[1], page xi:
      He [Cary Gabriel Costello] is the gestational father of a teenaged child, and is married to an intersex woman who was assigned male at birth—musician and technophile Aubrey Schaefer.
    • 2019, Laura V. Heston, "Queering Kinship: LGBTQ Parents And The Creation Of Real Utopias", dissertation submitted to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, page 180:
      Most of the gestational fathers I talked to had already rejected gender norms, and it was this rejection that led them to imagine becoming gestational fathers in the first place.
    • 2020 October, Bernard M. Dickens, “Transsexuality: Legal and ethical challenges”, in International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, volume 151, number 1, page 165:
      He [Freddy McConnell] has publicized himself as a gestational father, for instance in a documentary film “Seahorse” (an upright-swimming fish, the male of which has a brood pouch for gestating its young).
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:gestational father.