Freddy McConnell
My Dysphoria Anxiety Still Crops Up at the Weirdest Moments
We need to address the psychological impact of being marginalized, to stop dismissing it as a result of individual weakness or as merely a symptom of systemic inequality.
A Brief History of the ‘Pregnant Man!’
The perfect example of the sensational story—one which erases minority experience while also giving it massively exaggerated significance—is that of the “pregnant man!”
Trans Pregnancy in the Time of COVID
“A system coping with COVID-19 is not going to be better equipped to welcome an anomaly like me in months to come, and that’s a scary thought.”
Confronting the ‘Failure’ of Miscarriage as a Trans Man
“The loss I’m experiencing is, in fact, mostly that of a story I was telling myself.”
Why I'm Sharing Everything About My Experience As a Pregnant Dad
Introducing Dad Bod, a series in which Freddy McConnell details the personal and political ups and downs of being pregnant as a trans man in the UK.