In a certain Dutch forum someone posted the following opinion (translated from Dutch):
She first points out an observation, there are certain transsexuals (male-to female) who wanted to have there semen frozen in to use it after they’ve fully transitioned to impregnate their (female) partner.
The following is her opinion on this:
“No I just can’t put my mind to it ….wanting to be a woman and at the same time still reproducing as a man????!!!!
I found that very strange …….what surprised me even more is that these people see it as their absolute right(you know like in human rights and things like that) to reproduce with their male seed after they’ve finished transitioning. Go try and do that as a genetic (lesbian) woman ….impregnating your female partner with your own semen ……
Human rights they called it, but there is no other woman who can impregnate another woman with her own sperm.
In my opinion that counts as ‘extra’ rights for male-to-female transsexuals.“
She continued in a later post in the same topic:
“In a purely legal point of view the transwoman who’s become legally a woman will still be the legal father of ‘her’ child. You will have a woman who needs to acknowledge paternity of the child ……very awkward if you ask me.
ALSO totally not logical.“

What is this discussion and close-minded opinion to me? Well I am a male-to-female(M2F) transsexual (still pre-op) who has chosen to have semen frozen in for later use when I want to have children of my own. To a mild degree I take offence of this opinion. Although this opinion is badly argued and seems to be the mere result of a negative sentiment towards M2F’s who don’t discard all the aspects of what’s presumed to represent biological masculinity. I could tell you more about the person who posted this opinion on that particular forum, but I find it of no interest to do so. I will make my point here, because I think I have a point and a right.

I wanted to have children when I would be adult and in a relationship already before I was a aware of my gender dysphoria, which was before the age of 10. This wish didn’t go away, but the more I came to the conclusion that I didn’t want to be a male adult the more I was afraid that it would never happen. Somewhere just before starting my gradual pre-hormone transition I found out that there would always be the possibility to have my semen frozen in, I sticked to this and so I did that just before I started my hormone treatment.
I had a fully male body for over 25 years, only capable to reproduce in the biologically male manner. As soon as I would become legally a woman after srs I wouldn’t be capable of any reproduction at all. This would mean a loss to me because I deeply desire to have children of my own. And although I will become a woman I will not be able to bare a child, even though I would really want to, in that sense I will not differ from biological women who’re infertile. Though do I have to condemn myself to a childless future? Okay there’s always the possibilities of an anonymous sperm donor or worse, adoption. The semen which is now being preserved in 21 straws at the fertility department of the nearby hospital is my only option to have children of my own. Yes the semen is the product of the fact that I was born male, and yes this bodily product has disgusted me many many times. The fact that the organ which produces it and the semen itself disgust me, doesn’t make me give up my wish to have children of my own. The benefit of having been a fertile man is that I can have children of my own, and I have to be realistic I need that semen to have children carrying my genes. I would be a fool to give that up and become an infertile woman who’ll never have children of her own. The person who posted that opinion above is not like me a lesbian, in my view that makes a big difference. When you become a heterosexual woman after transition then you’ll have no use of having semen from your male past frozen in for later reproductive use. I wish it were possible for M2F to ovulate and become pregnant , if that was possible then I would probably not have chosen to  contain semen. Fact is, it isn’t possible, and there’s no one else beside me to judge if I’m allowed to have children of my own or not! And I truly believe that if a lesbian couple would be able to have children carrying both their genes without needing an anonymous sperm donor then they would do so. I presume I will get in this situation one day, that day I will make use of what once my reproductive organ produced and after 9 months I will hold a child who not only resembles my partner but also me. And that is what is the issue here! I would do anything to make that happen, I’m that passionate about it, and anything meant jerking that horrible thing between my legs in disgust. In my opinion that semen doesn’t resemble my biological masculinity, but one half of the children I will one day hold in my arms!
And I can agree with those people whom see this as their right to have semen frozen in for later reproductive use. As they have like everybody in the world the right of family life. That right is used by those who visit fertility clinics and those whom adopt a child from somewhere else in the world. My right for family life is unseparable from the possibilities to have a family life, that possibility is in my case having my semen frozen in before I started hormone treatment. I differ from infertile women for having that possibility, but isn’t it so that I already differ from biological women because I wasn’t born a woman? I think so, that might lead to the discussion if I will really be a woman after srs as you might think of what a M2F desires. That discussion isn’t the issue here, but I can be short on it, for me it’s about being myself and not about being a woman.
As soon as my semen has lead to a pregnancy of my partner and subsequently the birth of a child I will become her/his parent and one of her/his two mothers. To assume that the fact that I delivered the semen makes me the father is a short-sighted assumption. I don’t know the exact laws on this here in the Netherlands, but it is hard to believe that a person who’s legally a woman can become legally a father which is only possible for men. Also, when a child is born from a donor father in a lesbian relationship than the woman who hasn’t carried the child can become legal parent. Also the sperm donor is never a legal parent, nor a legal father, only the biological father. In my case I will be the biological father which might be documented somewhere but isn’t of interest in daily life, what is visible to the child and to its surroundings is that I am her/his mother. Though like with two mothers in a lesbian relationship there is one whom has carried the child. I will not have a double position, because in the relationship with my child I can only be her/his mother and in no way a father because I am not a man and have no intention to take the gender specific father role within my future family. If I need to accept paternity of my child because the law asks this of me then I there is always the choice of going to court, in the mean time I can become legal caretaker of the child, because the chance that will be opposed by anyone is negligible as in I will still have a legally registered relationship with the mother of the child, my partner. And as that this option is possible in a lesbian marriage and contracted relationship then this option is equally possible for me and my partner as long as my biological parenthood isn’t legally accepted. The question is if I will really oppose to having to accept legal paternity, it’s merely a formality. The question arises about how the child will handle this situation, and in my opinion a child will more easily handle having his/her two biological parents as legal parents than when one biological parent is an anonymous donor.
If you have any well argued opinions which can refute what I’ve written here, then I certainly like to hear them.

For whom has read this entirely, a sincere thank you!