Sister gives birth after brother’s extraordinary fertility sacrifice

A London woman who spent years struggling with infertility has welcomed a baby boy after an extraordinary act of family support her transgender brother temporarily pausing his medical transition to donate his eggs.

Kizzy Jones, now in her 40s, told People magazine she had long been confronting the emotional and physical toll of infertility, including fibroids, endometriosis, age-related fertility decline, and two miscarriages.

After years of setbacks and limited options, she began seriously exploring donor eggs as one of her final hopes for motherhood.

With IVF costs quickly mounting and multiple treatment cycles financially out of reach, Jones said she was forced to carefully weigh every possible route to conception.

“When I looked at my options, it seemed better to use my available funds on a donor cycle rather than spend them on my own eggs with a much lower chance of success,” she said. “I really only had money for about two IVF attempts.”

Amid that uncertainty, an unexpected offer came from her 32-year-old brother, Kenny Ethan Jones, who suggested pausing his gender-affirming medical transition in order to retrieve and donate his own eggs.

At first, Kizzy said she assumed he was joking.

“I thought he was just saying it like, ‘I’ll help you redecorate,’ something you don’t take seriously,” she recalled. “I didn’t think he fully understood how intense egg donation is.” But Kenny was serious.

“When she mentioned she was looking into egg donors, I knew what I had to do,” he told People. “It felt more like a calling than a choice.”

Kizzy said she eventually began to seriously consider the offer, though she was initially uncertain about the emotional and medical complexity involved.

She had also explored donor options elsewhere, including abroad, but said some experiences left her discouraged.

“They told me they didn’t have any Black donors,” she said of one clinic abroad, “but that they had some ‘quite dark-skinned Greek people.’ As if that’s the same thing.”

By May 2024, Kenny began a two-week egg retrieval process, temporarily stepping away from hormone treatment he had been on for a decade.

Kizzy supported him throughout the process, though she acknowledges it came with emotional and physical challenges for both of them.

“It’s a horrible thing to go through,” she said. “So we tried to find humor in it, making jokes about injections, going to appointments together.”

Even after embryos were created, she said the process remained fragile and uncertain, with potential delays at every stage.

“Cancellation doesn’t just mean heartbreak; it means waiting, resetting and starting all over again,” she said.

“And when you’re already working against the clock, that pressure is very real.”

After months of treatment and a successful embryo transfer in early 2025, Jones learned she was pregnant.

While the moment brought overwhelming joy, she said it was quickly followed by anxiety about losing the pregnancy in its early stages.

“You’re thrilled, but you’re also frightened,” she said. “You’re just on edge.”

Due to prior fibroid surgery, doctors recommended a cesarean section to ensure a safer delivery.

By the end of 2025, after years of uncertainty and fertility struggles, Jones gave birth to a healthy baby boy.

“The moment I’ll never forget is hearing him cry when he was born,” she said. “Just knowing he was here, that he was okay.”

Looking back, Kizzy said she remains deeply grateful for her brother’s decision.

“I’m eternally grateful,” she said. “I understand just how much he sacrificed in order to help me.”