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What does it mean to ‘mother’ when you’re trans? This man answered with a memoir he wished he’d had.

“This baby helped me know the person I had to become,” Krys Malcolm Belc, 34, writes in an intimate, just-published book, "The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood."

Krys Malcolm Belc asks for help about UNO rules from son Sean Belc, 8, as he plays against his two other children in their home in Kensington.  Belc is a trans man who's written: "The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood."
Krys Malcolm Belc asks for help about UNO rules from son Sean Belc, 8, as he plays against his two other children in their home in Kensington. Belc is a trans man who's written: "The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood."Read moreALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / Staff Photographer