This essay uses my own autobiographical narrative as an example of queer familyformation theory in practice to chart the process by which our child was con-ceived and born in a country where, at the time, such an occurrence was a legalimpossibility. The story of our child’s birth begins with my own gender transitionacross national lines from the U.K. to Sweden, and how I managed to use a legalloophole to register as female in Sweden as a trans woman without having toundergo sterilization, which was the law at the time. I discuss queer family andkinship formation, the issues arising from multi-queer parent family dynamics,trans-parenting and transnational legal navigation in conception, adoption poli-cies as they relate to heteronormative biases in child lineage and registration andthe impacts of legal divorce and non-monogamy in social and legal definitions ina Swedish and international context.