gestational father
gestational father noun: synonym of birthing father.
Noun
gestational father (plural gestational fathers)
- Synonym of birthing father.
- He [Cary Gabriel Costello] is the gestational father of a teenaged child, and is married to an intersex woman who was assigned male at birth—musician and technophile Aubrey Schaefer.2016, “List of Contributors”, in Stefan Horlacher, editor, Transgender and Intersex: Theoretical, Practical, and Artistic Perspectives, page xi
- Most of the gestational fathers I talked to had already rejected gender norms, and it was this rejection that led them to imagine becoming gestational fathers in the first place.2019, Laura V. Heston, "Queering Kinship: LGBTQ Parents And The Creation Of Real Utopias", dissertation submitted to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, page 180
- Synonyms:
- birthing father
Synonyms of gestational father
Forms of gestational father
| plural | gestational fathers |
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Questions about gestational father
- What does gestational father mean?
- Gestational father means synonym of birthing father.
- What part of speech is gestational father?
- Gestational father is a noun.
- What is the plural of gestational father?
- The plural of gestational father is gestational fathers.
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