Trans men's pregnancy. New philosophical and juridical issues

This paper deals with trans men’s pregnancy considered as a gender revolution requiring feminisms and gender studies to display new imaginative abilities. Indeed, these people’s experience challenges the assumption that only cis women can give birth. This work explores the philosophical and juridical issue of how the trans men who give birth should be registered in their children’s birth certificate. Until now, there have been three possibilities: as fathers in the name of their gender identity, as mothers given the peculiar relationship characterising pregnancy, or as parents in a gender-neutral way. After having compared various feminist positions on whether pregnancy should be associated (only) to womanhood, some lawsuits promoted by trans men in order to be legally recognised according to their felt parental status are analysed, focusing in particular on OH and McConnell’s ones. Then, some reflections on the use of the term “parent” and on caring masculinities are provided.

Il presente lavoro indaga la possibilità degli uomini trans di restare incinti, capace di mettere in discussione il postulato che solo le donne cis possono gestare. In particolar modo, il paper analizza la questione filosofico-giuridica di come si debbano registrare gli uomini trans nel certificato di nascita della loro prole: se come padri in virtù della loro identità di genere, madri data la peculiare relazione della gestazione o genitori in modo neutrale dal punto di vista del genere.