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Meet Ziya and Zahad, India's first transgender couple to have baby

Ziya Pavel always wanted to be a mother; Zahad not so much. But the funny thing about love is that it makes you do things that you never imagined you would. Inconvenience is not new to Zahad and Ziya. And so, Zahad reportedly became the first trans man in India to birth a child. Right from their decision to have a baby together a year and a half ago to not revealing the child’s gender soon after its birth on February 8, their story has been unconventional.