This page lists all of the academic articles, media articles, and book chapters published from the Trans Pregnancy Project to date, organised by topic. Free versions of these are available in most cases – otherwise we link to where books may be purchased.
We are still publishing from the project, so please do check back for updates!
Conception
Riggs, D.W., Pfeffer, C.A, Pearce, R., Hines, S., White, F.R. (2021). Men, trans/masculine, and non-binary people negotiating conception: Normative resistance and inventive pragmatism. International Journal of Transgender Health, 22, 6-17.
Riggs, D.W., Pfeffer, C.A, Pearce, R., Hines, S., White, F.R., Ruspini, E. (2020). Trans/Masculine and Non-Binary People Negotiating Conception. Psychology Today.
Riggs, D.W., Hines, S., Pearce, R., Pfeffer, C.A., & White, F.R. (2023). ‘Spunkles’, donors, and fathers: Men, trans/masculine, and non-binary people’s accounts of sperm donor and their relationships to children. In D. Dempsey & F. Kelly (Eds.), Donor-linked families in the digital age: Relatedness and regulation. Cambridge University Press.
Pregnancy loss
Riggs, D.W., Pearce, R., Pfeffer, C.A., Hines, S., White, F.R., & Ruspini, E. (2020). Men, trans/masculine, and non-binary people’s experiences of pregnancy loss: An international qualitative study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, Article 482: 1-9.
Midwifery and medical practice
Riggs, D.W., Pfeffer, C.A., Hines, S., Pearce, R., & White, F.R. (2021). Men, trans/masculine, and non-binary people and midwifery care. In M. Anderson (Ed.), Midwifery essentials: Perinatal mental health (pp. 178-182). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Riggs, D.W., Hines, S., Pearce, R., Pfeffer, C.A., & White, F.R. (2021). Trans parenting. In A. O’Reilly (Ed.), Maternal theory, 2nd Edition (pp. 807-815). Toronto: Demeter Press.
Pfeffer, C.A., Hines, S., Pearce, R., Riggs, D.W., Ruspini., E., & White, F.R. (2023). Medical uncertainty and reproduction of the ‘normal’: Decision-making around testosterone therapy in transgender pregnancy. SSM – Qualitative Research in Health, 4 (Article 100297): 1-10.
Pfeffer, C.A. (2022) Transgender men and nonbinary people are asked to stop testosterone therapy during pregnancy – but the evidence for this guidance is still murky. The Conversation.
Young people’s perspectives
Riggs, D.W., Pfeffer, C.A., White, F.R., Hines, S., & Pearce, R. (2022). Young men, trans/masculine, and non-binary people’s views about pregnancy. In D.W. Riggs, J. Ussher, K. Robinson & S. Rosenberg (Eds.), Trans reproductive and sexual health: Justice, embodiment and agency (pp. 156-174). Routledge.
Domestic violence
Pearce, R., Pfeffer, C., Riggs, D. W., White, F. R., & Hines, S. (2023). Trans birth parents’ experiences of domestic violence: Conditional affirmation, cisgenderist coercion, and the transformative potential of perinatal care. Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies, , 3(2-1): 45-68.
Gender and embodiment
White, F.R., Pearce, R., Riggs, D.W., Pfeffer, C.A., & Hines, S. (2025). ‘Why is the chubby guy running?’: Trans pregnancy, fatness and cultural intelligibility. Journal of Applied Philosophy, , 42(1): 415-430.
Pearce R, Hines S, Pfeffer CA, Riggs DW, Ruspini E, and White FR (2023) Giving birth as a father: experiences of trans birthing parents. In: J Gill-Peterson (ed) The Conversation on Gender Diversity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Note: this is an updated version of the Conversation article below.
Pearce R, Hines S, Pfeffer CA, Riggs DW, Ruspini E, and White FR (2019) Experiences of trans birthing parents. The Conversation.
Whiteness
Riggs, D.W., Pearce, R., Hines, S., Pfeffer, C., & White, F.R. (2023). Whiteness in research on men, trans/masculine and non-binary people and reproduction: Two parallel stories. In S. A. Tate, C. Lundström, S. Keskinen & R. Andreassen (Eds.), Handbook on new critical race and whiteness theory. Routledge.
Media representation
Pearce, R., & White, F. R. (2019). Beyond the pregnant man: Representing trans pregnancy in A Deal With The Universe. Feminist Media Studies, 19(5), 764-767.