seahorse dad
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English
Etymology
In reference to seahorse biology, in which the male of the species gives birth to the young.
Noun
seahorse dad (plural seahorse dads)
- Synonym of birthing father
- 2020 August 3, Yuval Topper-Erez (quoted) Morgan Brinlee, “This Trans Dad's Home Birth Photos Beautifully Capture The Raw Emotion Of Labor”, in Romper:
- I hope, among other things, that this album will inspire birth workers and future seahorse dads (AKA gestational fathers). I know how meaningful images like this could have been for me before my first pregnancy and how meaningful it is for me to see images of fellow birthing trans and nonbinary people to this day.
- 2020 September 27, Daniel Smith, “How pregnant transgender man dubbed a 'seahorse dad' stopped hormone treatment to start a family”, in WalesOnline:
- Calling himself a "seahorse dad" – as in seahorses it is the male that gives birth – Bennett, who is due on November 5 and is recording his pregnancy on Instagram, has stopped the hormone treatment he began in the summer of 2014, to start a family.
Further reading
Seahorse birth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
