Olympian Tom Daley has told how a woman offered to change his baby son's nappy for him because she assumed he would not be able to do it himself.
The Olympic gold medallist has a three-year-old son Robert with his Oscar-winning screenwriter and husband Dustin Lance Black.
He revealed when the tot was just seven-months-old he was on a train journey when Robert needed changed and a stranger asked him if he was "sure he knew how to do it".
The 27-year-old British diver also said people often don't understand the 'dynamic' of same sex parents and said it comes with an 'extra pressure' and 'scrutiny'.
Speaking on Fearne Cotton's the Happy Place podcast, Daley said: "As a parent you already feel pressure from other parents that you want to be doing the best that you can and doing the things - whatever the right way is, you want to be seen to be doing the best thing," writes the PlymouthLive.
He went on: "But then there comes an extra pressure with that as a same sex couple.
"There's extra scrutiny of it already being a different scenario - what is a normal scenario as a parent, as a family, anyway? There's so many different things.
"But we just try to do our best and I think that's what every parent is trying to do, is trying to do the best for their kids and trying to do the best that they can do to give them the best chance at life.
"For me, that's something that's been difficult because even things like when Robbie was little, about seven months or six months old we were on a train one time.
"And he pooed and the lady next to me was like 'do you want me to change his nappy for you?' and I was like 'no, I mean I can do [it]'.
"[And she said] 'are you sure? You know how to do it yeah?' And I was like 'he's seven months old now, so I'd like to think I've changed a few nappies'.
"So it's just little things like that, I find it quite funny.
"If they've not experienced same sex couples and parenting, they can find it quite difficult to imagine how the dynamic might work."
The couple married in 2017 before announcing they were having their first child through surrogacy on Instagram in 2018.
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