He gave birth. He breastfed. Now, he wants his son to see him as a man

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But most new dads didn't give birth to their child. They didn't breastfeed them. And they don't endure glares from strangers when they go shopping with their wife and their toddler son.


Sabastion, 24, is a transgender man who lives with his wife Angel in suburban Atlanta. Assigned the female gender at birth, he began transitioning five years ago . It's a process that felt more complete last month when he had surgery to remove his breasts.

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By the time Sabastion met Angel five years ago at a convention for transgender people, he identified as a man. Angel, 33, was designated male at birth but had transitioned years earlier.

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As a teen growing up in Locust Grove, Georgia, Sabastion felt different. Before he transitioned to become a man, he would sit on the school bus and think how much he hated having breasts.

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The couple conceived their son the conventional way, even though their biological roles at the time were not compatible with how they saw themselves. "Getting pregnant was fine," Angel says. "Trying to stay pregnant was difficult." The first time they tried, Sabastion miscarried. When he got pregnant with Jaxen, they worried another miscarriage could happen.

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