00:00I am fulfilling my dreams and becoming a pregnant dad.
00:04I just wish the society do better with understanding
00:08transgender people as humans.
00:12I am judged as a seahorse dad.
00:14You're confusing your child.
00:16You're not going to tell her the truth.
00:19You switch to trans and then you come out
00:21and tell me you're pregnant.
00:23Later what?
00:25It's crazy because all my YouTube videos
00:28and the beginning of my transition,
00:29literally happened in this room.
00:31I have a little bit of hair right here underneath my chin
00:35and just the look on it now,
00:38it's just like, oh, you came so far.
00:40It's really a journey.
00:41You're learning yourself all over again.
00:44My name is Tali Jones and I'm six months pregnant.
00:48Everybody's transition is their own transition.
00:51When did you realize that you were transgender?
00:55I think I told my grandma about ninth grade
00:58or 10th grade and she just told me,
01:01like, hold out maybe to experience,
01:04like, relationships, friendships,
01:07learning more about the LGBT community
01:10and then once I got old enough to make the decision,
01:14if that was what I wanted to do, then I could do it.
01:18So then 2020 and I started transitioning
01:22to where I'm becoming the person who I always thought I was.
01:26This is my voice one day on T.
01:27This is my voice 27 weeks on T.
01:30Feel like her moving, kicking stuff.
01:32It keeps me at peace.
01:33How's your pregnancy going?
01:35I'm kind of over it.
01:37Like, not in a bad way,
01:38but I think I'm just more so ready for her to come,
01:41see what she looks like, how she interacts with me.
01:44This is my vlog of me trying to conceive.
01:47I found a donor through one of my good close friends.
01:50We did two inseminations at home and on the second try,
01:55I found out a week before my birthday I was pregnant.
01:58And how did you feel when you found out?
02:00It was just so emotional because, like,
02:02I felt my body changing.
02:06I was crying, like, I think I cried myself to sleep
02:08because it's, like, something that I always wanted.
02:12These are so cute.
02:14And then the matching sweater.
02:18Tell me about finding out about the gender of your baby.
02:21I still don't believe she's a girl.
02:23I think it's so crazy.
02:24Gender-wise or her sexuality, whatever the case may be,
02:28like, let her be open to making her own decisions
02:32when she's old enough to make those proper decisions.
02:35Have you decided if you're nursing or not?
02:37Me having my top surgery and they redoing my nipple grafts,
02:41I actually can't breastfeed.
02:43What are your dreams for your daughter?
02:46I just want her to grow up and just to be everything
02:49she want to be.
02:50I'm the dad that says, what's the next step?
02:52If you want to be an astronaut, I will support it.
02:56But I'm not going to the moon with you, baby.
02:58I will see you when you get back.
03:00How would you describe your pregnancy journey so far?
03:03It's been good for the most part.
03:05In the beginning, I had a few complications.
03:08She's been growing, and she's healthy,
03:11and I haven't had any complications since then.
03:14It's been very good with the support of the doctors.
03:16I haven't had any bad experiences
03:18with me going to the doctor.
03:19I didn't know I'm transgender and carrying my own child.
03:22People stop me in public, and I don't know them at all.
03:26They say congratulations.
03:28I've really never had any bad scenarios of people stopping me
03:33and it caused a problem.
03:35So tell me about your decision to start sharing on social media
03:40on your YouTube channel.
03:41This is my belly.
03:43Seven months.
03:44Sharing my transition of my pregnancy on social media,
03:47it's always been a thing because it's rare.
03:50When you look it up, it's like short videos
03:54on transitioning in the LGBT community,
03:57or it's like the negative things.
04:00I want to put a positive view, a positive perspective on who
04:06we are as humans.
04:07What kind of responses have you been getting?
04:09The negative responses is like, why would you
04:11wait to transition to have a baby,
04:15or I'm going to make the baby hate me,
04:19and you will never be a dad, and the child is going to resent you
04:26when they get older.
04:29You're confusing your child.
04:31You're not going to tell her the truth.
04:34I feel like I also document these videos for me,
04:39but also for her to know where she came from,
04:43or know me before my transition.
04:45Almost forgot to take my vitamin.
04:48I really don't pay attention to the negativity,
04:50because I just feel like the opinions,
04:52they really don't matter to me.
04:54It's not their baby.
04:56They're not raising her.
04:57And as long as she's filled with the right amount of love,
05:00respect, I feel like the negative will never
05:03outweigh the positive.
05:05I just wish the society do better
05:07with understanding transgender people as humans.
05:12Telling my family, it was exciting for me
05:14to actually see everybody's faces.
05:17Hey, what you doing here today?
05:19What's up, bro?
05:21It was more so shocking, because I really
05:23didn't tell nobody I was trying to have a baby after the fact.
05:27I think the first time I told you in January
05:30that I thought I was pregnant, I wasn't pregnant.
05:33So then I didn't tell you I was trying again.
05:36So when I did, I was mad.
05:39Why?
05:40I was.
05:40Remember I told you, I was just mad.
05:42Wrong timing?
05:43Yeah, wrong timing.
05:45And I just wanted you to be stable financially.
05:49I wanted you to have all your ducks in a row.
05:52Now she got everything that she need.
05:54You planned it, and you planned on taking care of her
05:58as you're doing right now.
05:59So just waiting on her, basically.
06:03Yeah, how did you respond?
06:04I was a little shocked.
06:05You switched to trans, and then you come up
06:07and tell me you're pregnant.
06:09Later what?
06:10I'm trying to make the connection.
06:11But I also know that from our conversations
06:17when you was young.
06:18I always wanted to carry my baby,
06:22whether it was through me transitioning or not
06:24transitioning.
06:25What's it been like for y'all?
06:27I see some of the comments on social media.
06:29I don't like the negative comments.
06:32It's in me to defend you.
06:34You strong, but I also know the real you.
06:38And I also know some things be hurtful
06:41that people say, even though it doesn't matter
06:43because you don't know them.
06:45I'm grateful for you don't mind talking about you.
06:48That has stopped me from having a lot of arguments with people.
06:52You don't mind explaining.
06:54You don't mind educating.
06:56Your process really has been about education.
06:59This one.
07:02And then this is her heartbeat.
07:04We waiting for you, girl.
07:06We waiting for you, little girl.
07:08What kind of a dad do you think he'll be?
07:12I think he'll be a great dad.
07:14He's going to be a wonder dad.
07:16I just know that this is going to be
07:18a good thing for the family.
07:20You being good with anybody else's kid,
07:22we got to see what you do with your own.
07:25I want to give my child a great childhood.
07:29She will always have me.
07:30I will always be there.
07:32My responsibility will always to be take care of her.
07:36I want my daughter to experience she
07:39is a person who is wanted, who is loved,
07:42and who's really the person who I needed
07:45to help me keep going in life.
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