Doctors helped a transgender woman breast-feed her baby

She told doctors that she wanted to breast-feed her baby. She explained that her partner was pregnant but was not planning to breast-feed when the child was born, so she wanted to take it on herself. The 30-year-old, who is transgender, was willing to accept the risks. Following months of hormone therapy last year, doctors say she might be the first reported transgender woman in academic literature to breast-feed, according to a case study published last month in the peer-reviewed journal Transgender Health. Reisman, an endocrinologist with the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, said doctors used protocols for “non-puerperal induced lactation,” in which a woman is stimulated to lactate. The patient, who had not undergone gender reassignment surgeries, was put on a hormone regimen – spironolactone to suppress testosterone, and estradiol and progesterone to mimic the hormone stage of pregnancy, according to the case study.