‘Man gives birth’ doco requires major denial of reality - by Graham Adams.
New Zealand journo Graham Adams has produced a sharply pertinent critique of the recently aired NZ On Air documentary called “Trans and Pregnant”. The documentary features a woman who says she’s a man and her partner who is an actual man, whereby the woman becomes pregnant and gives birth. A heterosexual couple, in other words. All the promotional gobbledygook beforehand, though, claimed it was “two men on their journey to parenthood as they navigate societal roadblocks”. Possibly, those “societal roadblocks” were that very few others bought into their delusion.
In reality, the couple did what heterosexual couples often do, and co-created a zygote from the woman’s egg and the man’s sperm. This zygote worked its way up the woman’s fallopian tube into her uterus, and attached itself to the uterine walls. It became an embryo, and then developed into a foetus. She gestated this foetus for several months, and eventually gave birth to it as a baby male human, whose sex was determined way back at the time of conception.
Only women have the biological machinery to turn zygotes into eventual humans. No man can do this. NZ On Air, however, are amongst the organisations and institutions which have chosen to believe that if a woman says she’s a man, she is, ergo men can also do all of the above. As Graham writes in his article below, they are becoming increasingly out of touch with the public.
The story compilation of the pretend-man’s pregnancy via her actual-man partner began three years ago, when ‘transmania’ was at its height. Graham says “Unfortunately for the public broadcaster [TVNZ], the story has been born into a much different world than the one in which it was conceived. Over the past three years, the public’s willingness to pretend a trans man is actually a man, and not a woman, has been sorely tested.”
Indeed, it has.
In his article, Graham captures the growing unwillingness of the public to be force-fed falsehoods of this nature. But our mainstream media, for one, seems oblivious that their heyday for doing that is over.
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Do I have pity for that child? You bet , and as it grows to adult hood its on our watch .
Be mindful and may love be with us all.
Thanks, Katrina. One point I didn't have room to make (because the column was already almost 1700 words long) is that NZ on Air has a continuing obsession with promoting trans issues. I could be wrong, but I'm doubtful TVNZ would readily put its hand up now to air a trans doco like Trans and Pregnant if someone proposed it, but NZ on Air is still happy to find other, more niche/receptive audiences than a public broadcaster such as TVNZ provides.
In April, it granted up to $395,115 for “The Gender Agenda” — a docu-series of five 10-minute
episodes “exploring the complicated issue of gender” — which began streaming on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram last week.
I haven't done a close search of NZ on Air funding decisions to find any other examples, but in the past three years it has spent millions of taxpayer dollars on three programmes alone that promote trans ideology. In the same 2021 round that funded “Trans and Pregnant”, the agency also awarded $1.725 million for “Rūrangi 2” focused on a “transgender activist” who “returns to a remote, politically divided dairy community in the hope of reconnecting with his father”.