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Transgender dad proudly shows off his baby son on This Morning

Awww, what a bundle of joy!

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Transgender dad Trystan Reese showed off his new baby boy today after giving birth three weeks ago.

Trystan and his hubby Biff Chaplow went on This Morning, cuddling their little bundle of joy.

Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford listened as Trystan described his painful labour.

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He said: “It was more painful than I ever possibly could have imagined.”

Biff added: “It was interesting. I feel Trystan and I are very connected as a couple and it wasn’t hard to know what Trystan really needed in that moment. It’s not in my nature to be really caring or supportive so it took some effort, but I think I did a good job.”

Well at least he’s honest… anyway, so far little Leo has been a dream according to trans daddy, Trystan.

“I think we have the easiest baby in the history of babies,” he said. “He sleeps really well, he eats really well. He gives us very little hassle.”

The family of three are happy as they are but they aren’t ruling out a bigger brood in future.

There’ll be no more painful births though.

Trystan says they’ll take the adoption route if they want any more children.

The new daddy was born a girl but always knew he was a boy inside and started taking gender-switching hormone medication a decade ago.

But as soon as he found out he was pregnant, he stopped taking the medication so Leo could grow normally.

He described the birth as a “moment of bliss” despite the pain because it was something he’d wanted for so long.

Sadly, he suffered a miscarriage last year and thought at the time he might have lost his only chance of having a child of his own.

The couple, who already have two adopted kids, Riley and Hailey, warmed many hearts and also raised a few eyebrows back in June when they first chatted to This Morning.

At the time, Trystan said: “I think there are a lot of gay couples who would love to be able to have their own biological child without a lot of assistance and intervention from other people.

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“I think quite frankly there are a lot of men who would love to be able to carry a child. For me I started to see it as a really amazing gift that I have been given.

“That I am a man and get to live as a man, and that’s how I feel I am, and I also get to do this really amazing thing that a lot of other people would love to do. And that’s carry a child.

“I know that’s not how most babies are carried and I know it’s not how most men are, but I just want to start to expand people’s ideas a little bit [around] what it can mean for a man and to be a father.”

Congratulations!


Christian Guiltenane
Freelance Writer

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