After a one-night stand with a man he met on Grindr, a transgender man became pregnant while transitioning.

Ash Patrick Schade, 28, of Huntington, West Virginia, had been transitioning for two years and was taking testosterone and estrogen blockers when he found out he was pregnant in February 2020, after a Grindr hook-up.

“It had never occurred to me that I could get pregnant whilst on testosterone and estrogen blockers, as it’s such a rare occurrence,” he said.

After a one-night stand at Grindr, the transgender man gives birth to a baby girl and now wants more children before undergoing full gender reassignment surgery.

Ash, who is a mental health worker and Ph.D. student, stopped hormone treatment after learning he was pregnant in order to be able to carry a child.

He met his now-husband Jordan, 28, a month after finding out he was pregnant.

Ronan, his daughter, was born in October of 2020.

The couple is raising their one-year-old daughter Ronan together, and Ash, who had his breasts removed after the birth, says he is delaying full gender reassignment surgery so they can have more children together.

“I was going through a rough time from 2019 and 2020 and struggled with my mental health due to going through a divorce,” Ash, who was previously married to another man, explained.

“I ended up going on Grindr hook-ups and accidentally fell pregnant.

“It was a huge shock, but I fell in love with my bump and pushed through the pregnancy, despite struggling with the dysphoria and medical risks.”

Ash said he “felt like he was in the wrong body” for “as long as he could remember” and was sent to conversion therapy by his parents as a child, in the hope it would “fix” him.

“I hid my boobs and identified as a boy at school and went by Ash, and wore gothic dark clothes as a way to hide how I looked,” he recalled.

“Until one day, my mother, who does not wish to be named, sent me to school in a pink two-piece for picture day and my teacher loudly declared that I was actually a girl called Ashley.

“I went from popular to a nobody overnight, with my then girlfriend’s mum calling my mum to ‘keep that gay slur of a child away from my daughter’.

“I had a really horrible childhood and am a suicide attempt survivor from the gender dysphoria and trauma I went through.”