Chloe Winters, 33, Is 28 Weeks Pregnant With a Baby Made From the Eggs Her Husband Taylor Froze Before He Transitioned, After a Failed First Round

28 weeks into her pregnancy, Chloe Winters, 33, of London is expecting a baby girl in January, and the eggs behind the pregnancy came from her husband, Taylor, 43. Taylor is a transgender man who had his eggs frozen before he started testosterone, according to Winters’ account in a Newsweek essay republished on Yahoo on Nov. 9, 2026.

The couple used a method called reciprocal IVF, in which one partner provides the eggs and the other carries the pregnancy. A first round in March did not work, and the current pregnancy followed.

Eight Eggs Frozen Before Taylor Started Testosterone

Winters, a content creator and social media manager, was 22 when she met Taylor on a dating app in 2016. He was 32 and had not yet begun a medical transition. According to her essay, he told her he was transgender within weeks, and she has said it made no difference to her.

The two bonded over surrealist art and spent early dates in museums and galleries while Winters studied fine art. About 18 months in, they got engaged at Disneyland Paris. Taylor saw a doctor, was referred to a gender clinic and completed two psychological assessments as part of his medical transition.

Before Taylor began hormone treatment, he was offered egg freezing, and eight eggs were retrieved. He had top surgery in October 2019 and a hysterectomy in November 2023, and the couple married in August 2025.

Guidance from the NHS matches the timing. Guy’s and St Thomas’ says fertility preservation is generally advised before any gender-affirming therapy, though it can be discussed at any stage. The same page says hormone therapy may cause temporary sterility that might not reverse, and that surgery can cause permanent sterility.

Storage rules are part of the picture for anyone freezing eggs in the UK. The same NHS page says eggs can be stored for up to 55 years from first storage as long as written consent is renewed every 10 years, and that consent must cover permitted uses and what happens to the eggs after death or incapacity.

How Reciprocal IVF Put Taylor’s Eggs in Chloe’s Pregnancy

Winters wrote that the baby is biologically Taylor’s. His frozen eggs were fertilized with donor sperm, and Winters carries the pregnancy. The couple chose a donor with health as the main priority.

The UK’s fertility regulator describes the same process. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority says reciprocal IVF, also called shared motherhood, collects eggs from one partner, fertilizes them with donor sperm and transfers the embryo to the other partner, who carries the pregnancy and gives birth. It follows the same main steps as standard IVF, and one embryo is usually transferred two to five days after fertilization.

The regulator notes a slightly higher risk of pregnancy complications than IVF with a person’s own eggs. It also explains that the person who gives birth is the legal mother, and that legal parenthood for a partner depends on marriage, civil partnership or consent before treatment.

A Failed March Round and About $15,000 in Costs

The first transfer attempt in March was unsuccessful. The pregnancy followed that setback, and Winters is now in the third trimester. She put the total spent so far at around $15,000.

The HFEA says NHS funding for treatment is decided locally, so availability depends on where a person lives, and private costs vary by clinic. The regulator advises asking several clinics for quotes and comparing success data for patients the same age as the partner providing the eggs.

The regulator also stresses that people can preserve fertility before hormone therapy or surgery: its fertility preservation page says both treatments can lead to partial or total loss of fertility, and that clinics must offer counselling before treatment. NHS funding for preservation depends on where a person lives, and the page advises speaking to a GP.

Freezing ahead of treatment has led to other births too, including an embryo Kelli O’Hara froze before radiation that became her son at 46.

Winters also wrote that she plans to use her own eggs in the future, which would make a later child biologically hers.

What Fertility Bodies Say About Transgender Parents and Frozen Eggs

Medical groups have been explicit that transgender people should not be shut out of fertility care. The American Society for Reproductive Medicine’s ethics committee says providers should offer fertility preservation counseling before gender transition, and that programs should treat requests for assisted reproduction without regard to gender identity.

It adds that providers should offer counseling from a qualified mental health professional on topics such as disclosure to children, the use of donor gametes and the effects of stopping hormones, and that patients should be encouraged to consult legal experts about becoming parents through assisted reproduction.

The committee also says care is best delivered by a multidisciplinary team, and that people who have already started hormones may need to stop them before fertility treatment.

The committee lists egg, sperm and embryo freezing as options. It also says the limited data available do not support concerns that being raised by a transgender parent will necessarily harm a child’s psychosocial functioning, and that long-term outcomes are not well studied, though the data so far are reassuring.

In Scotland, the government’s information page on egg freezing for trans and non-binary people, published in March 2026, says egg freezing preserves the option to try for biological children later. It recommends speaking with a healthcare professional before starting medical or surgical transition.

For Winters and Taylor, that option is now a baby girl due in January.

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This article was produced with AI assistance and edited for accuracy against the sources linked above.

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