Detransition Baby Author:Torrey Peters A whipsmart debut about three women -- transgender and cisgender -- whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender, motherhood, and sex. — Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn't hate. She had scrape... more »d together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Now Reese is caught in a self-destructive pattern: avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men.
Ames isn't happy either. He thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier, but that decision cost him his relationship with Reese -- and losing her meant losing his only family. Even though their romance is over, he longs to find a way back to her. When Ames's boss and lover, Katrina, reveals that she's pregnant with his baby -- and that she's not sure whether she wants to keep it -- Ames wonders if this is the chance he's been waiting for. Could the three of them form some kind of unconventional family -- and raise the baby together?« less