Trans man complains current medical system isn't set up for trans pregnancies (...)

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When Kayden Coleman was pregnant with his now 10-month-old daughter, no one held the door for him, fussed over his growing belly or made him feel special in the way that pregnant women are sometimes treated.

In a way, he feels as though he missed out on "the perks" of pregnancy, he said. In another, he's relieved no one knew the truth. As a transgender man, he felt safer that way.

"I didn't have to walk around in fear, worrying that people wanted to inflict violence on me," Coleman, who lives in Houston, told TODAY. "They thought I had a beer belly.”

Kayden Coleman after giving birth to his daughter Jurnee. "In the medical world, it was assumed that I wasn't capable," he told TODAY. "Even with my second child, I would tell them over and over that this wasn't my first. And they still talked to me as though I had no idea what I was doing."

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Reform hospitals!