Logan Brown is a British

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activist, blogger, and residential children's support worker. The ex-partner of

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drag performer Bailey J Mills, he is best known in the U.K. for having a child while having transitioned to becoming a man. Brown was featured on the cover of ''Glamour UK'' in 2023, whilst in his final trimester of pregnancy. The cover was for the magazine's

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issue, and featured Brown in a body-painted suit, which referenced

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's famous 1992

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for ''Vanity Fair'', where Moore posed nude while pregnant. Brown came out at the age of 13 and again as a

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at 21 to a supportive family. In February 2024, he told the ''

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'' “I didn’t realise the things I used to do, like bind my chest down, I was doing for a reason." Brown started hormone therapy. At 22 Brown had chest surgery to remove his breast tissue. He described the process as "just life-changing.” “It was everything I had always wanted." A residential children's support worker, Brown had initially blogged about his pregnancy on his blog "Up the Duff Man." It was unexpected and one that had happened with his partner, non-binary drag performer Bailey J Mills, when Brown had stopped taking hormones for health reasons. Brown has described how the pregnancy brought back feelings of

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. He told ''Glamour'' "I took a pregnancy test and it was positive. It was like my whole world just stopped. That everything, all my manlihood that I've worked hard for, for so long, just completely felt like it was erased." The feeling was repeated during the birth; Brown, who has

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, said that if he were to become pregnant again he would want to have an elective caesarean. Speaking about his pregnancy, Brown stated: "Especially in the queer community, but also from

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straight people that were messaging me, going, 'I never even thought about this.' It’s not my job to educate people, but because I’m so passionate about existing and trans people, I feel like I need to get my story out there. And it’s a positive story." He gave birth to a daughter in 2024. Since then, Brown has modelled in cosmetics adverts for BPerfect Cosmetics. Brown also wrote the children's book ''In My Daddy's Belly'' for his daughter and an autobiography. According to ''

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'', the book has been the subject of transphobic attacks. Brown won an award march 2025 at The Gaydio awards, for influencer of the year.

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Logan Brown's Instagram account
*Brown's blog
Up the Duff Man
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