In 2016, the decided transgender Freddy McConnell from England that he would have a child. Since then he has been followed by a tv-team, which has documented the 32-year-old brites journey towards becoming a father.
the Documentary ‘Seahorse: The Dad Who Gift Birth’, had its premiere with the BBC on Tuesday, and provides a unique insight into the 32-year-old Freddy McConnells pregnancy.
Freddy McConnell retained his uterus, as he started his transformation to the man. On the way he could still become pregnant, and the documentary shows how he gives up his testosterone-treatment in the hope of getting a child.
A few months into her pregnancy talking Freddy McConnell honestly about feeling to wear a child in the stomach.
– If all the men were pregnant, would the pregnancy be taken so much more seriously and talked about, it sounds, from the 32-year-old, who continues:
Fuck, this is fucking terrible. If men had to go through it here, we would never hear about otherwise.
After the second attempt to get pregnant with a sperm donor if Freddy McConnell. He tells in the documentary that he had not thought that it would be so hard to be followed by a camera.
– I think I totally underestimated the difficulty of being on camera and being filmed very much. I can remember that I thought, ‘this is really strange, I get used to it’, but I got used to me never to it.
– This film is about me that gets a baby. But, I feel I am going through is not a pregnancy or to get a baby, it is a much more fundamentally the loss of myself, says Terry McConnell.
Also the director behind the ‘Seahorse: The Dad Who Gift Birth’, Jeanie Finlay, had its emotional challenges of making the documentary.
– It is the most challenging film I have made. It was an emotional marathon. I don’t think that anyone had realised that the kønsdysfori, which, He felt, would be so severe, says the director to The Guardian.
the Documentary shows Freddy McConnell birth to his child. Then follows the next challenges, as it turns out, that the law will only recognize him as the child’s mother.
He has now taken the case all the way to the supreme court, and if he wins, his son, the first child in England, as in the legal sense does not have a mother.
