HuffPost called it “cheeky.” Tan France’s viral announcement photo is nothing of the sort. It is, to use a current buzzword, "erasure."
Holding an ultrasound fetchingly over his belly, France immediately telegraphs the news that a surrogate mother is bearing a child for him and his partner. But his gorgeous male body does not contain a uterus, and never will. His taut man's abdomen will not swell and bear stretch marks.
Don't get me wrong: I'm a fan of the stylish Tan France and TV’s whole Queer Eye crew of makeover artists. I wish him and his partner a blessed journey. But even with his acknowledgement of the "greatest gift/help of the most wonderful surrogate," they are erasing their child’s mother with this social-media coup, whether the egg was from the surrogate herself or another donor.
