Thread by @yatakalam

File under Death of Journalism

A newspaper published this sentence:

"The babies were conceived using their mum Adrianne’s sperm to fertilise donor eggs which were carried to full term by their dad, Michael, during a gruelling pregnancy"

@BelfastLive
belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-t…

Quote from the woman who gave birth to twins while claiming to be a man. Such a clear illustration of the mind/body fracture engendered by trans ideology:

"I believe all of us are a mix of male and female and I just had to rely on my female physicality to become a dad."

Trans ideology is hatred of the female body:

"Being pregnant was a lot to deal with in my head, but in my heart becoming a parent was my only priority and using my body as a vessel to create these amazing little miracles and bring them into the world was just a means to an end."

The 42-year-old woman got pregnant thanks to £18,000 worth of IVF treatment involving donor eggs, so I guess she was infertile.
Whether from puberty blockers and/or testosterone, or for some other reason we won't know because the article doesn't say.

The sperm was the man's.

The one person who gets zero mention in this article is the egg donor, the biological mother of the child.

Egg donation is a hugely involved 3-6 month process involving screening, scans, hormone injections, sedation, and collection by a needle passed through the vaginal wall.

The woman who donates eggs also has to stop her contraception including having her IUD removed if she has one, change her sex life, take sick leave, face pain, risk of infection and other health impacts.

completefertility.co.uk/sites/complete…

Women who go through the lengthy medical process to donate eggs to other women who are infertile do not get paid for it.

So the woman who had the pregnancy claiming " I just had to rely on my female physicality to become a dad" should also recognize that she was relying on the female physicality of another woman too. Not to become a dad though (obviously), but to get pregnant and have her twins.

By the way, there is nothing in the article that substantiates the claim that this pregnancy was "gruelling". There was morning sickness.

But the genre requires that it be gruelling because rule 1 is that trans people always suffer more.

https://twitter.com/yatakalam/status/1335884175941971968

One reason they suffer more is that the rest of the world does not share their belief that it is possible to be simultaneously both male and female, and this is a great injustice about which many newspaper articles must be written.

I'm not even going to comment on the cognitive dissonance these children will have to deal with being brought up to believe that they have a male mother and a female father.