US government paid for 256 transgender MEN’s pregnancies between 2014 and 2018 – costing taxpayers around $5million



The US taxpayer has spent millions funding the pregnancies of transgender men, official data shows.

A recent study by University of Michigan researchers found there were 1,907 births among people who were born biological female but who identified as men between 2014 and 2018, the equivalent of nearly 500 a year.

Of the total, 256 trans men were insured under Medicaid – a government programme that provides health insurance to people with limited income, which is funded by Americans. The average cost of childbirth in the US is around $19,000, meaning the deliveries would have cost taxpayers around $4.8million.

Becoming pregnant as a trans man is possible if the person still has their female reproductive organs.

And while the hormone therapy transmen take to transition will block the person from having a menstrual cycle, it is not a form of birth control.

The hormones do not prevent pregnancy and trans men are able to conceive and carry a pregnancy to term.

Pregnancy options remain the same as cisgender women, including sexual intercourse with a partner with a penis or through fertility assistance like in vitro fertilization.

Medical experts, however, recommend trans men stop taking their testosterone hormone therapy during pregnancy because it can be toxic to babies.

Testosterone – the male sex hormone that gives trans people a deeper voice and facial hair – can cause heart problems and genital development issues to the fetus.

The Michigan research – which was quietly released in May 2023 – sought to analyze the outcomes of pregnancies among transgender men compared to outcomes among cisgender people.

Researchers analyzed all deliveries from 2014 to 2018 from the Medicaid and commercial insurance databases. They looked at medical records and identified patients with male gender at the time of delivery who suffered from gender dysphoria.

They identified 256 trans men among those who gave birth while insured through Medicaid and 1,660 covered by commercial insurance.

Their finding is thought to be the first estimate of how common the phenomenon of men giving birth is in the US. The research also showed that trans people were 50 percent more likely to have vaginal births than cisgender women.

But being trans was not significantly associated with severe parental morbidity or preterm birth and was associated with lower rates of C-section delivery.

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The US taxpayer has spent millions funding the pregnancies of transgender men, official data shows.

US Government paid for 256 transgender MEN's pregnancies between 2014 and 2018 – costing taxpayers around $5million