Trystan Reese is Associate Director at Young Nonprofit Professionals Network, a society of employees of nonprofits. He lives in Portland, Oregon. ^[2]

Reese is married to Biff Chaplow. They were married in 2013. ^[3]Chaplow and Reese are adoptive parents of two children named Riley and Hailey - Biff's niece and nephew - who were adopted because Biff's sister suffers from substance abuse.

In 2016, Reese got pregnant, which was shocking to many since he has a beard.

He had suffered a miscarriage earlier in the year and tried again while off Testosterone.

He says of his pregnancy, "some people think trans people were born into the wrong bodies, and we really hate our bodies, and that’s why we need to transition.

For me, just transitioning normally – taking testosterone so that I have a beard and my voice is deep as its ever gonna get – and appear like a man… that’s enough for me.

I never felt like I needed to change my body.

And I for sure do not hate my body.

I feel like my body is awesome, I feel like it’s a gift to have been born with the body that I did.

So if you can start to understand that, then it starts to make more sense that it would not seem totally bizarre for me to want to create and carry a baby."

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He gave birth to a healthy baby boy in August 2017.

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