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Henry Steinn, 19, had started living as male when he found out he was pregnant via his boyfriend Thorir Leo Petursson.

He said that he had not planned to get pregnant, but when he found out decided it was the opportunity to have a child and a family with his partner.

The pair had been together since Valentine's Day the previous year (2015), and had been friends for a long while before that, living together in the small community of Arskogssandur, in northern Iceland, which has just 200 residents.

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He said: "Everyone around here knows of course about my life choices, and I'm pleased to say I haven't experienced any prejudice so far."

Now that the baby has been born with a caesarean section, he is breastfeeding his daughter but also plans now to continue with his sex change procedure as soon as he stops that.

He said: "I’ve never felt 100 percent male anyways but I feel so much better on this side of the spectrum that I’m going to continue with the treatment as soon as I can."

Henry had told his family in October 2014 about his plans to have gender reassignment surgery and said although his mother was fine about it is father was a bit confused, and then more confused when he found out that his new son was going to have a baby, and he would be having a granddaughter.

While pregnant, Henry said he had tried to wear big, baggy T-shirts and added: "It’s a good thing my boyfriend is bigger than me so I just borrowed his clothes. I did wear pregnancy trousers although I found their cut a bit too feminine for my taste, but I never wore those pregnancy dresses or tunicas."

With regards to the baby's upbringing, they said they would try and keep the baby girl’s early years ‘gender unspecific’, with nothing for example too particularly pink or girly. He added: "When the child starts making obvious choices about what she wants to wear, she will be free to choose where she wants to go."