2020-02-25
1 小时 10 分钟So my guest today, Tristan Reese, was vaulted into the public consciousness in 2017 when he and his partner decided to share their non traditional pregnancy story on a podcast.
They figured maybe a few hundred people would listen, but within hours, Tristan, who had transitioned to being a man years earlier, became known across the Internet as the, quote, pregnant man.
Mainstream media picked up the story and spun it in a way that led to not just global awareness, but also mass scale misunderstanding, backlash, and just incredibly hateful comments.
Behind this moment, though, was a years long, powerful and profound story of awakening and acceptance, agency advocacy, and love that to this day continues to be at the core of Tristan and his family's lives.
And it fuels the incredible work that he has done both now and he continues to do as the director of family formation at Family Equality Council, which is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting LGBTQ families and those who wish to form them.
That bigger story is where we're headed today.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
I was a very strange child.
I mean, you know, mom, dad, super supportive.
Both of my parents grew up extremely poor, so my dad is the son of a coal miner.
He's one of 13 brothers and sisters from Newfoundland.
Wow.
Yeah.
Which is like, the appalachian.
Canadian.
Appalachian, basically, yeah.
And then my mom is the daughter of a single mom who was a nurse.
My mom's dad died when she was very young.
Oh, wow.