A heavily pregnant transgender man has been featured on the cover of Glamour UK’s June Pride digital issue – sparking heated backlash on social media.
Logan Brown, a 27-year-old author who was born female but now identifies as a trans male, unexpectedly became pregnant with his partner Bailey Mills, a non-binary drag performer, the magazine reported.
“One day, I had this really weird feeling; it was early in the morning and Bailey was asleep. I took a pregnancy test and it was positive,” Brown told Glamour UK’s Chloe Law.
“I’d been off testosterone for a while due to some health issues,” he said.
“It was like my whole world just stopped. That everything, all my manhood that I’ve worked hard for, for so long, just completely felt like it was erased,” Brown continued.
“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, who gave birth two weeks after the shoot, said he eventually told Bailey, “I’m pregnant,” adding that “I had a moment thinking, ‘This is all right’ – and then went into, ‘Oh, no, this isn’t good. What about my career? You’re… you’re a pregnant man!’”
The controversial cover story and shoot sparked backlash online against the publication.
“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?” columnist Piers Morgan wrote on Twitter.
Former trans influencer and detransition activist Oli London blasted the publication for pushing a “woke” agenda that is “mocking women.”
“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. Shame on you @GlamourMagUK for mocking women and everything they have to go through during pregnancy,” he wrote.
“This is what happens when you drink too much BudLight,” he added.
Gay rights activist Fred Sargeant said Glamour has missed the point of Pride month.
“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,” he tweeted.
Brown, meanwhile, said he has not been surprised by all the harsh criticism “because, obviously, this is not a usual everyday thing.”
He said he and his partner have also received “a lot of love, a lot of queer joy.”
“I have done TikTok videos discussing the pregnancy and being open about it, and there have been some hate comments there, but I was easily able to brush those off,” he added.
The cover model, who is writing a children’s book called “My Daddy’s Belly: The Miracle of Male Birth,” has documented his pregnancy on a blog and social media.
“I said, ‘Look, here’s my blog. I wrote about it. This was an accidental pregnancy, and I’m not gonna change my identity just cause I’m pregnant,” he said about his response to a wave of critics.
“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.”