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Title: Transgender Adoptive Parent Featured on Oxygen Documentary Series
Post by: Shana A on August 09, 2012, 09:54:51 AM
Post by: Shana A on August 09, 2012, 09:54:51 AM
Transgender Adoptive Parent Featured on Oxygen Documentary Series
The series views the adoption process from the perspective of the birth mother, and features one confident about giving her child to a transgender man and his wife.
BY Sunnivie Brydum
August 08 2012 2:52 PM ET
http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2012/08/08/transgender-adoptive-parent-featured-oxygen-documentary-series (http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2012/08/08/transgender-adoptive-parent-featured-oxygen-documentary-series)
I'm Having Their Baby, a new documentary series on Oxygen, chronicles the adoption process from the perspective of pregnant women. The show's latest episode profiles Sydney, a 22-year-old woman in Portland, Ore., who is giving her baby girl to married couple Tinujei ("T") and Jesse, who is a transgender man.
"I realize that placing my child with a transgender parent could be controversial," Sydney says in the show, "but the truth is that he's just as capable of raising a child as anyone I know."
Sydney chose the couple from several contenders, which included a straight couple, a gay couple, and the adoptive parents. T and Jesse, both in their 30s and married for eight years, were in Sydney's hospital room for the birth of their daughter, Greta Miyo.
The series views the adoption process from the perspective of the birth mother, and features one confident about giving her child to a transgender man and his wife.
BY Sunnivie Brydum
August 08 2012 2:52 PM ET
http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2012/08/08/transgender-adoptive-parent-featured-oxygen-documentary-series (http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2012/08/08/transgender-adoptive-parent-featured-oxygen-documentary-series)
I'm Having Their Baby, a new documentary series on Oxygen, chronicles the adoption process from the perspective of pregnant women. The show's latest episode profiles Sydney, a 22-year-old woman in Portland, Ore., who is giving her baby girl to married couple Tinujei ("T") and Jesse, who is a transgender man.
"I realize that placing my child with a transgender parent could be controversial," Sydney says in the show, "but the truth is that he's just as capable of raising a child as anyone I know."
Sydney chose the couple from several contenders, which included a straight couple, a gay couple, and the adoptive parents. T and Jesse, both in their 30s and married for eight years, were in Sydney's hospital room for the birth of their daughter, Greta Miyo.