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Homo Sapiens

151: Trans Parenting with Freddy McConnell | Part 1

Homo Sapiens

Christopher Sweeney

Arts, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Relationships

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

To mark Trans Parenting Day I’m chatting to the wonderfully funny Freddy McConnell. Freddy is the trans dad who made a brilliant film called seahorse about his first pregnancy in all its glory. He is now pregnant with his second and joins me to share many fascinating tips on queer parenting, hysterical stories of parenting little ones, talks me down from my fears of raising a toxic male (!) and we find out - what do fried egg crisps have to do with all of this? Click play to find out! Chris x


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0:00.0

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longer.

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0:30.1

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0:38.3

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0:43.5

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0:49.4

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0:57.6

Listeners, I'm going to tell you, we just started this interview and the thing broke.

1:07.3

So this is the second intro.

1:09.3

But, you wouldn't know, cos I'm going to put as much of them and vigor into it as I did

1:14.7

the first one.

1:15.7

Welcome to Homo sapiens, your one-stop shop for LGBTQ plus abandoned.

1:20.7

It's a very special episode of Homo sapiens actually, because we have just had transparent

1:26.3

day, was on the 7th of November.

1:28.6

So I am joined by the one the only.

1:31.6

How do I do a second introduction, Freddie, and make it better than the first?

1:34.6

The one the only Freddie McConnell, who is a writer, a journalist, he's a trans dad, and

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