{"id":3388,"date":"2026-09-15T14:10:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mealmagic.delicedcook.com\/?p=3388"},"modified":"2026-09-15T14:10:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:10:28","slug":"zahhad-was-23-years-old-when-they-decided-to-put-their-entire-life-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mealmagic.delicedcook.com\/?p=3388","title":{"rendered":"Zahhad was 23 years old when they decided to put their entire life on hold."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They had been with Ziya Paval, their partner, for three years in Kozhikode, Kerala. Both had begun their gender transition years earlier: hormone therapy, surgeries, the long journey toward their final bodies. Zahhad had already undergone breast removal surgery. But one day, that process was put on hold. They wanted a child, and to make that possible, Zahhad paused their transition and became pregnant.<\/p>\n<div class=\"g g-1\">\n<div class=\"g-single a-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>On February 8, 2023, their baby was born by cesarean section at the Government Medical College Hospital, weighing 2.920 kilos. It was the first documented case in India of a transgender man giving birth. But the story did not end there: when the time came to register the child, the couple asked for something no form provided for\u2014that Ziya be listed as the mother and Zahhad as the father.<\/p>\n<div class=\"g g-2\">\n<div class=\"g-single a-5\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The hospital did not know how to respond. The case reached the Kerala High Court, which ultimately ruled in their favor: both could simply appear as \u2018parents,\u2019 without labels that did not represent who they are.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-230\" src=\"https:\/\/infonewsguru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788814420077-818x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They had been with Ziya Paval, their partner, for three years in Kozhikode, Kerala. Both had begun their gender transition&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mealmagic.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mealmagic.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mealmagic.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mealmagic.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mealmagic.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mealmagic.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3390,"href":"https:\/\/mealmagic.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388\/revisions\/3390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mealmagic.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mealmagic.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mealmagic.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mealmagic.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}