TYLIQ is 23 years old and six months pregnant with his first child. Tyliq began transitioning when he was a teenager. Tyliq said: “It’s really a journey, you’re learning yourself all over again.” He got pregnant through insemination and was so emotional when the pregnancy test came back positive. He said: “I think I cried myself to sleep because it’s something that I’ve always wanted.” The father-to-be started sharing his story on social media and has had a lot of support online but has also experienced a lot of negativity from trolls accusing him of confusing his child and questioning why he transitioned then had a baby. He said: “It’s not their baby, they’re not raising her. As long as she’s filled with the right amount of love and respect, I feel like the negative would never outweigh the positive.” Tyliq’s grandma Marceline and his sister Marleshia were initially shocked when he shared his pregnancy news but they are fully supportive of him and excited to welcome a new addition to the family. He added: “I want to give my child a great childhood. She will always have me, I will always be there. My responsibility will always be to take care of her.”
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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.