AN ex-army captain and an actor are to become Britain’s first parents who are both transgender. Jake and Hannah Graf, who first met in 2015, are expecting a baby girl, to be delivered by a surrogate in the new year. The pair tied the knot in March of last year, and are now looking forward […]
AN ex-army captain and an actor are to become Britain’s first parents who are both transgender.
Jake and Hannah Graf, who first met in 2015, are expecting a baby girl, to be delivered by a surrogate in the new year.
The pair tied the knot in March of last year, and are now looking forward to life as parents.
“I’m so excited! I love little babies,” Jake told the Mail in an interview.
“Within a week of our first date Jake was asking if I wanted kids,” added Hannah.
Before leaving the military in 2018, 32-year-old Hannah was the army’s highest-ranking transgender officer, and was given an MBE for her work with LGBT personnel.
She now works in finance, while Jake, 41, is an actor, writer, and director who previously starred alongside Eddie Redmayne in 2015 film The Danish Girl.
The two have been planning children for a while, with Hannah telling the Sun last year: “We want kids sooner rather than later. I’ve definitely got broody since turning 30.”
Their baby – now at 22 weeks – is being carried by a surrogate who received eggs harvested from Jake in his mid-30s and fertilised using sperm from a donor before being frozen.
That was before Jake and Hannah met but, by happy coincidence, Jake says he chose a donor with similar characteristics to Hannah.
“I’m quite short and artistic, rubbish at science and logic, and I wanted a sperm donor to balance that,” he told the Mail.
“So I chose a tall, sporty, brown-eyed engineer.
“I picked someone just like Hannah!”
The couple funded the cost of the surrogacy – around £45,000 in total – by asking guests to their wedding to contribute to a fund.
They say they want to raise their child to live however she feels comfortable.
“We’ve… heard people say we want to raise a trans baby,” said Jake.
“Why on earth would we choose that for our child?”
“We know how incredibly hard it is to be transgender and we want the exact opposite for our daughter.”
Hannah added: “Some people see it as an ideology we’re trying to force on others.
“But nothing could be farther from the truth.
“We’re just being the happiest version of ourselves we can be.”
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