The June UK edition of Glamour magazine features a ‘pregnant man’ on the cover as the magazine’s celebration of Pride Month..Logan Brown, 27, who was born female, but now identifies as a transgender man, is on the cover of Glamour’s digital issue, in a painted-on suit and displaying a large baby bump, reports The New York Post.. Logan BrownLogan Brown .In an interview in the magazine, Brown talks about unexpectedly becoming pregnant with partner Bailey J Mills, a non-binary drag performer in the UK, while taking a break from testosterone treatments due to health reasons, the fashion magazine said..In the introduction to an interview with Logan, conducted two weeks before Logan gave birth to a daughter, Glamour’s Chloe Laws wrote Brown and Mills were subjected to “rampant transphobia” from people online who repeatedly commented that “men can’t get pregnant” on Brown’s social media posts..“I’ve been brought up in a very close-knit family, and so to bring a baby into the world in a queer relationship is the best feeling ever,” Brown said in the interview. “I feel like we’ll be able to love and appreciate each other, and my daughter will be able to grow up knowing that she’ll always be loved and accepted for whoever she is. And I think that’s a really important thing for her to be around.”.Brown told Laws about suffering from “really bad mental health” issues as a child and, after coming out as lesbian, wanting to explore an “identity of being trans” and now identifies as queer..Brown experienced a weird feeling about the possibility of being pregnant..“I took a pregnancy test and it was positive. It was like my whole world just stopped. That everything, all my manlihood that I’ve worked hard for, for so long, just completely felt like it was erased,” Brown said..“It was really hard because how do you tell your partner, ‘Oh, I’m pregnant, but oh, I’m also your boyfriend as well,’” Brown added. “The reaction was mixed emotions for both of us.”.“I spent so much time feeling shame and being hard on myself until I thought, ‘You can enjoy this process or make it really difficult for yourself.’ I’m a pregnant man, and we’re very lucky, and I’m proud to do what we’re doing.”.Brown wrote about the pregnancy on a blog and social media, telling Laws about receiving support from the LBGTQ community and about not being surprised by negative reactions on line because “obviously, this is not a usual everyday thing” reports The Post..“We’re real living people. And at the end of the day, I am a trans pregnant man and I do exist. No matter what anyone says, I am literally living proof,” said Brown..On line comments were swift, including calls for Bud Light-style boycotts and others questioning the language used in the interview, such as “he gave birth.”.Former trans influencer and detransition activist Oli London, tweeted, “Just when you thought Woke Companies could not sink any lower — Glamour UK magazine has featured this ‘pregnant man’ on the cover to kick off Pride Month. Time to BudLight @GlamourMagUK.” .“So, a pregnant straight woman for @GlamourMagUK’s Pride month cover. That makes complete sense these days. Pride month has become a competition amongst trans panderers to see who can most completely lose the plot about what Pride was created to commemorate and celebrate,” tweeted gay rights activist Fred Sargeant..Piers Morgan reacted, “Living proof of what? Logan’s a biological female who got pregnant, as hundreds of millions of biological females do each year. Why are you presenting this as a man getting pregnant which is biologically impossible?”.“Every single baby ever born was gestated within a woman’s body. But there’s only one way to get on the cover of a magazine for performing this everyday miracle,” wrote author Helen Joyce..“Hey look, a pregnant woman with an elective mastectomy who can’t breastfeed her child because she’s cosplaying as a man,” wrote conservative influencer Classically Abby..“To answer the question, ‘What is a woman?’ I think we first need to understand a woman can be a man who is no longer a woman but can get pregnant like a woman but is a man,” author Dr. Jebra Faushay tweeted sarcastically along with a Glamour UK TikTok video featuring Brown..In a statement obtained by The Intercept, Glamour’s European Editorial Director Deborah Joseph said, “When we first met Logan and heard his incredible story, we were blown away by his strength and courage. We knew he would be the perfect cover star for our June Pride issue, as a shining example of empowerment, inclusivity and equality.”
