Thus, Ames doubts that he can fulfill the masculine role of a father to a child. Ames reveals to Katrina that he spent six years living as a woman and still considers himself a woman, though navigating the world as a trans woman was ultimately too difficult. Katrina discovers that she is pregnant with Ames's child, though Ames mistakenly believed himself sterile because of his time on hormone replacement therapy. After the end of their relationship, Reese and Ames have been estranged because of Ames's decision to detransition three years ago. All three are in their thirties and live in Brooklyn. The main characters are Reese, a trans woman, PR executive, and former partner of Amy Amy, who detransitioned to live as a man and became Ames and Katrina, a biracial Chinese and Jewish cis woman who is Ames's boss and current lover. The novel was met with critical success and praise for crafting a tender exploration of gender, parenthood, love, and trans life.
It is her debut novel and was published by Penguin Random House. Detransition, Baby is a 2021 novel by American author Torrey Peters.
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