A trans man has laid bare the emotional journey of becoming pregnant and raising a baby with his two gay partners.
In a new BBC Storyville documentary, Kris - who had spent years thinking he would be unable to have children after having his ovaries removed in a surgery he has since described as a 'castration' - documented his parenting journey with David and Sindre, who are all in their 30s and live in Norway.
However, 10 years after Kris's operation, doctors said his uterus was still healthy – so the trio have since spent thousands on egg donation and IVF to successfully insert an embryo.
'I've wanted to become a father since I was in nursery,' Kris said. 'I've never considered anything else.
'I'm just a person who wants a baby like anyone else - and I happen to have a uterus that I can use. So I'm very fortunate to have the opportunity.
'That's how my body is, so there can't be anything wrong with that.'
Kris admitted that the pregnancy was an emotional ordeal - because of his 'traumatic' experience with getting gender-affirming surgery, which he needed to do to be classed as male in Norway.
'It was traumatic because I had to fight it at every stage,' he explained. 'But I had to go through with it to get that damn national ID number.
'And I had to do it because if I didn't, I felt I wouldn't get further treatment at the hospital.
'And I needed that. I knew what I was doing was wrong and that I would regret it - primarily because I knew I wanted children.'
Kris didn't want to remove his ovaries and uterus, but 'back then that was mandatory if you wanted the right ID number and if you wanted a chest reconstruction, which of course he did'.
'I told the surgeon prior to my surgery, "I don't want to do this",' he explained. 'And she said "you don't have to remove your uterus, that's easy".
'So they let me keep my uterus - but they removed my ovaries.'
Kris described the emotional moment before being taken in for surgery, where he 'cried and told the nurses, "I don't want to."'
Through the documentary, he showed the effects of his body experiencing estrogen and gestagen - and while he at times experienced pain, David and Sindre said 'he doesn't complain'
'But eventually I realised there was no point in objecting anymore,' he continued. 'So they wheeled me in anyways.
'I was basically still crying. I have been afraid of hospitals every since.'
In a personal injury claim, he wrote that he was 'castrated against his will and forced to remove his ovaries'.
'I lost the ability to have a baby,' he added. 'I have been told by therapists that there was no point in freezing any eggs, they wouldn't survive, and that my uterus had been destroyed by the testosterone treatment.'
When asked in the claim form about the consequences - and whether it would incur him a loss of over 10,000 kroner (£775), he said: 'If you can put a price on the inability to have children, IVF treatment and medicines have already totalled over 200,000 (£15,500).
'I thought I couldn't have children since they said my uterus was ruined until I became pregnant through IVF and a donor egg on May 2, 2022.
'We are planning another child through IVF and donor egg - which will cost us between 150,000 (£11,625) and 200,000 (£15,500) more.
'We had to go abroad as I am legally male in Norway don’t qualify. And I added that I have been on medical leave a lot due to the dramatic forced castration and my treatment.
'I lost power over my own body.'
In the programme, Kris later received an expert assessment from the Norwegian System of Patient Injury Compensation, who determined that the hospital 'acted correctly when they removed his ovaries' as it was 'good practice'.
Through the documentary, he showed the effects of his body experiencing estrogen and gestagen - and while he at times experienced pain, David and Sindre said 'he doesn't complain'.
Kris gave birth to their baby daughter in 2023
'He handles it well,' they added.'We actually have to nag him from doing too much.'
However, while Kris thought the experience may make him feel 'more female', the pregnancy has just left him 'only more convinced that he is a man'.
'My beard feels different,' he shared. 'I have lost body hair. I feel that I am changing. I love my belly; no problem.
'But I have started developing boobs. And I hate that.'
They decided to undergo the procedure in Finland, as it was important to the parents that 'when their child turns 18 - he or she can find out who the donor was'.
But David and Sindre - one of whom is the baby's biological father - said that they are going to be 'honest from day one' with their baby.
'It may become apparent, but who knows?' David shared. 'We are going to tell our child everything. The rest of the world doesn't have to wonder.'
Kris gave birth to their baby daughter in 2023. He shortly after tried to go through another round of IVF, but sadly, lost the embryo. Heartbreakingly, he was grieving the loss during the Christening of his first child.
However, at the end of the programme, Kris celebrated being pregnant once again.
Now, the parents hope to be the best possible fathers they can be for their child
The throuple also opened up about how they found each other .
'It's a perfect combination,' David, a professor, shared.
He recounted how the trio met at a 'pre-party'.
'Being gay was no problem at the university. But the fact that we were three was a little norm-breaking,' he added.
'It's funny; some of my colleagues knew about Kris and some knew about Sindre. And some knew a little about both or thought it was the same person. But then I was caught off guard once.
'This colleague - I had told him that my boyfriend worked in a nursery but another time I told him my boyfriend worked in the hotel industry. And so I had to tell him, "sorry, but they are two different people."
'But now everyone knows!'
'It just happened and we ended up like this,' Kris added. 'One summer the three of us were sitting on my terrace; we had been out on the town or something. We were talking and thought: why not just give it a shot? Be together—all three of us.'
Now, the parents hope to be the best possible fathers they can be for their child.
'I believe in a future where Kris can be a father, not a mother. And that the will get an apology from the government for everything we had to suffer through,' they shared.
'I do have hope that being three fathers, being a different type of family, will become a strength.
'The question is, have we become normal? Normal enough for people, once they know who we are.
'And if they know who we are, it isn't that dangerous?'
Kris added: 'One of the things I fear... that I have sometimes thought about, is that she'll turn against us... "I want a father and a mother", "I want to be like the other kids in class"...
'There's always the question, "what if?" I at least hope she won't be ashamed that I gave birth to her.'