151: Trans Parenting with Freddy McConnell | Part 2
Homo Sapiens
Christopher Sweeney
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2021
⏱️ 35 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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| 1:03.0 | Hello, this is Part 2 of my delightful chat with Freddie McConnell. If you haven't heard |
| 1:08.2 | Part 1, well, you've got to listen to that first, so head back to the feed and find it. |
| 1:13.2 | If you have heard Part 1, here's Part 2. Can't say it simpler than that, quite honestly. |
| 1:20.0 | When you talked to SJ about it, how has the old discussion been, has it always been from the |
| 1:24.8 | beginning? So really early on, I always read him books very from very early on, which lots of |
| 1:31.4 | parents do, and books that he wouldn't be able to understand, really, or appreciate fully, |
| 1:35.9 | but one of them was called What Makes A Baby, which is by an American author and illustrator, |
| 1:42.0 | and it's a beautifully done book about basically any kind of family could read it and make it |
| 1:48.4 | apply to their situation, which is quite a feat, because it's also very simple. It just uses |
| 1:52.8 | very simple language, and it says things like, when two people want to make a baby, they need to |
| 1:57.6 | find an egg and a sperm, and they need to find a place for the baby to grow, and they illustrated |
| 2:03.5 | in ways where you could imprint your own situation onto it, whether one of you is pregnant or |
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