Senior Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) leader MK Muneer slammed a trans-man’s pregnancy and said they are living in a “fool’s paradise”.
Before questioning the logic behind the reports of a trans-man delivering a baby, Muneer asserted that gender equality would bring division in society.
Last week, Ziya Paval had recently announced partner Zahhad’s pregnancy, claiming that this was the first trans-man’s pregnancy in India. The couple was blessed with a baby at a state-run hospital in Kozhikode on February 8.
As the transgender community in Kerala celebrated the birth of the baby, IUML leader Muneer has said homosexual couples can never conceive and termed it a “hollow” claim.
“Those who believe in such wonders are living in a fool’s paradise,” Muneer said while addressing a programme organised by Wisdom Islamic Conference.
The former state minister said the person who gave birth to a baby was actually a woman, although she had removed her breasts to look like a man.
“The presence of a womb in the person who gave birth to the baby proves that it was actually a woman,” the Koduvally MLA said, adding that the pregnancy happens when a sperm fertilises an egg.
Though Zahhad had delivered the child, the trans-man wanted his name to be registered as the father of the baby and Paval, his trans-woman partner as the mother.
Zahhad, who identifies as a transman, had stalled hormone therapy to conceive, and on February 8, delivered through Caesarean section at the Medical College Hospital in Kozhikode.
