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# What It Is Like to Navigate Pregnancy… As a Dad
- URL: https://goodoil.news/npr-exploits-fathers-day-for-a-trans-lesson-navigating-pregnancy-as-a-dad/
- Published: 2023-06-20T00:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-06-18T23:04:30.000Z
- Author: Guest Post
- Tags: Gender, Media, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:22

**Tim Graham**

*Tim Graham is executive editor of NewsBusters and host of the [NewsBusters Podcast. ](https://www.newsbusters.org/administrative/nb-podcast?ref=goodoil.news)His career at the MRC began in February 1989 as associate editor of MediaWatch, the monthly newsletter of the MRC before the internet era.*

[newsbusters.org](https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2023/06/18/npr-exploits-fathers-day-trans-lesson-navigating-pregnancy-dad?ref=goodoil.news)

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On Saturday, NPR exploited Father’s Day to push “pregnant dads” with our taxpayer subsidies. The headline was “Americans celebrate dads this weekend. Three tell us about being a father in 2023.” They pushed the “he was pregnant” pronoun inanity hard in their celebration:

> **Navigating pregnancy as a dad – Kayden Coleman**  
>  
> Kayden Coleman, 37, was surprised to learn **he was pregnant**.

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> In 2013, he had just had top surgery – a double mastectomy – and had temporarily stopped taking hormones for the procedure. Coleman, who is transgender, said doctors had told him **he couldn’t get pregnant.** A few years later, assuming that he’d been taking hormones long enough to avoid another pregnancy, **he found he was expecting again**. Today, he is raising two young daughters. Coleman shares his experiences with fatherhood and pregnancy as a transmasculine person on social media, hoping to change perceptions and expectations.  
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> “I experienced a lot of pushback and discrimination within the medical system based on preconceived ideas of what a pregnant person is supposed to look like,” he says.  
>  
> He thought that things would have changed by the time he had his second child, but “I still had to deal with people telling me that I didn’t belong in certain spaces.”  
>  
> “I had to convince a lot of people that I was pregnant and that I wasn’t just a strange man trying to infiltrate the OB-GYN’s office,” he says. “I got offered abortions an astronomical amount of times. I think that comes from the idea that people think that trans people either don’t want to have kids or shouldn’t have kids.”  
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> Both pregnancies were difficult because he “spent more time fighting for autonomy over myself to just get an equitable space comfortable enough for me to give birth” and didn’t get a chance to “actually enjoy the process of being pregnant”.

The only tiny hint of interesting opposition allowed in this propaganda is that allegedly a lot of people wanted this woman to abort. Then we had to be told “what people get wrong” with their opposition to upside-down gender-denying madness:

> **What people get wrong about trans dads**  
>  
> “One of the biggest things that people get wrong is that we hate our bodies, and thus, anything remotely feminine would be something that we will reject – including pregnancy. For those of us who identify more on the masculine spectrum, just because we identify as such does not take away our desire to have kids. **If we have the body parts to do so, why not?**”  
>  
> “The other thing that a lot of people think is that **because we gave birth, we suddenly become mothers**. People are always shocked when they hear my children calling me ‘Daddy’.”

“Because we gave birth, we are mothers.” Isn’t biological reality silly?

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