Labeled 'Mother' When Not A Mother At All: On Being A Non-Binary Gestational Parent
In his debut The Natural Mother of the Child, Krys Malcolm Belc credits the pregnancy and birth of his son with helping him decide to transition.
The language we use to talk about the act of giving birth to a child is highly gendered. We speak of pregnant women, we speak of mothers, we speak of motherhood.
In the crowded genre of memoir about mothering, Krys Malcolm Belc's debut, , asks: What do we do with someone who is parenting the child they gave birth to, but is not a mother at all? Where do transgender and non-binary parents fit, especially in a
