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IT WAS FATE

‘I’M FINALLY THE PERSON I WANT TO BE – AND I’VE GOT A MINI-ME’

HIS social-media feed is filled with photos of his son, a cute little boy with blond locks and blue eyes, and in the pictures Ryan Sanderson is clearly a doting dad.

He calls himself a seahorse dad, a reference to the male fish who carries and births its young – and it’s a fitting description because Ryan gave birth to little Hendrick, an experience he describes as life-changing.

The 24-year-old dad from Greater Manchester in England, who was assigned female at birth, discovered nine weeks into his male transition

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