"We Bought Sperm 4 Months In”: A Trans Dad + Cis Mom’s Donor Conception Story

Robert and Shannon are “two regular degular schmegular queers” who went from friends… to dating… to buying sperm in just a few months (yes, it’s as lesbian as it sounds). In this episode, they share what it looked like to build a family as a cisgender woman and a transgender man, including the realities of trans fertility, the complicated emotions around fertility preservation, and the deeply values-based way they chose a sperm donor: not for height or Ivy League degrees — but for happiness. We also talk about raising a donor-conceived toddler with openness from day one, why donor co...