Citations:birthing father

Noun: "(neologism) a trans man who has given birth to a child"

 * 2019, Dylan Myrick, quoted in Bethany L. Johnson & Margaret M. Quinlan, You're Doing it Wrong!: Mothering, Media, and Medical Expertise, unnumbered page:
 * He acknowledged that other trans men don't feel the same way: "I think some would still see themselves [as] the birthing father."
 * 2019, Laura Griffin & Linda Roland Danil, "Law’s Changing Bodies: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Law and Embodiment", Australian Feminist Law Journal, Volume 45, Issue 1 (2019), page 2:
 * Travelling across diverse jurisdictions, they examine a range of cases – such as the criminalisation of trans bodies or identities, and the case of birthing fathers – and trace how the ‘post-gender’ legal struggle became a fight for a ‘third gender option’.
 * 2019, Grietje Baars, "Queer Cases Unmake Gendered Law, or, Fucking Law's Gendered Function", The Australian Feminist Law Journal, Volume 45, Issue 1 (link):
 * A de-gendered parenting law may be easier for the straight legal system to digest tha[n] a birthing father.
 * 2020, Doris Leibetseder & Gabriele Griffin, "States of reproduction: the co-production of queer and trans parenthood in three European countries", Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 29, Issue 3 (2020), page 320:
 * Gender issues surface regarding birth certificates as the appropriate terminology (the self-definition of the parent) should be possible; a trans man giving birth, for instance, might be the birthing father on the official document.
 * 2020, "'Call me dad': Pregnant man takes birth drama to court", The Courier Mail, 9 October 2020:
 * Riggs – who has served as an expert witness in a Queensland court case for a birthing father wanting to be recognised as such, but declined to discuss the details – argues if someone is legally registered as a man, he should be able to claim the title “father”.
 * 2021, Melissa Bartick et al., "Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Position Statement and Guideline: Infant Feeding and Lactation-Related Language and Gender", Breastfeeding Medicine, Volume 16, Number 8 (link):
 * For instance, compared with a cisgender nonbreastfeeding mother, breast cancer risk may be increased for a birthing father who feeds his infant artificial milk (due to the residual breast tissue and the lack of desire or ability to lactate), or decreased if he is able to partially lactate with the remaining mammary tissue.
 * 2021, Levi Pulkkinen, "2 Million Washingtonians Rely On A Medicaid System That’s Driving Away Doctors And Dropping New Mothers", InvestigateWest, 12 February 2021 (link):
 * Mothers and birthing fathers usually have their postpartum checkup about six weeks after giving birth, Randall said, leaving them days or a few weeks to get care before their insurance lapses.