
Liz's story
The hopeful waiting family
My partner and high school sweetheart Jarrett is a transgender man and I am a cisgender queer woman, so life was very different when we were teenagers. We got married when I was 35, and that was when I suddenly felt closer to being ready to have a baby. Bad luck interfered, however, and in December 2015 I was diagnosed with stage II, hormone receptor-positive breast cancer.