All the eyerolls 🙄 they/them 'not Daddy!'

This is why we need the laugh emoji back

In every single photo he has a big grin, so he can't be too upset.

"For me, being non-binary is something I’ve always felt – that I’m not a man or a woman". And yet he fathered a child, providing sperm for a woman. Or is he some kind of hermaphrodite, who had a child with himself?

Those poor children!
Oh and he was exhausted, I'm not sure he remembered to mention it 🙄

Admittedly, when we arrived at the delivery suite on Tuesday night I did tell the lead midwife that my pronouns are they/them.

Because that's the most important thing for the midwife to focus on when your wife is about to give birth. 🤨

(I'm sure I'm not the first to make that comment but the narcissism is remarkable.)

I did tell the lead midwife that my pronouns are they/them, and she responded as I hoped – positively and respectfully.

Of course she did - she's a professional. Did he think she might tell him to piss off?

Bet she was rolling her eyes inwardly though.

His wife’s waters broke and she wasn’t admitted until 3 days later…so at least a 3 day labour with twins, maybe longer. Babies are then not only taken to NICU but are ill enough to be transferred to different hospitals. But it’s all about him and his fucking identity. Fuck sake.

I don’t think the man with pink hair realises how unhinged and essentially rejecting of his kids’ and his partner’s much greater needs, him even carving out the time to write and publish a story of his own brave sacrifice of his special pronouns, is.

There’s an open invitation for anyone else who wants to share their stories at the foot of his article. I’ve been a bit annoyed sometimes that I haven’t ever been able to fly, or do time travel, for example, maybe I’ll write about the heartlessness of that.

Do you have a story you’d like to share? Get in touch by emailing [email protected].

If he's looking for a name, may I suggest Twat might be a good choice?

At last, something the internet agrees on.

In this instance it seems to mean he gets to call himself "queer", which is obviously the coolest thing to be, and wear pink dungarees, which he obviously couldn't do otherwise. 🤷‍♀️

He's different and special, father is way too regular

I don't get this 'non-binary' stuff. Afaik most people see themselves as people, they don't go round all the time thinking 'I'm a man/I'm a woman', they think of themselves as 'me'. That I think of myself first as a person and then later, when faced with some discrimination usually, think of myself as a woman, mean I am non-binary? If so, it means that non-binary means bugger all - which is true enough.

This reads like satire as well! He seems to be masquerading as some kind of queer icon but nobody is convinced, not even himself.

The phrase that caught my eye was "still made me uncomfortable because it was proof that I wasn’t living authentically". Living authentically doesn't require any proof. It is a state of being. Whatever others, external commentators think or say, is irrelevant. A person who believes that they need proof that they are or aren't living authentically is not capable of living authentically.

JKR on twitter: "Imagine being in labour with twins and hearing the father of your children telling your midwife his pronouns."

😭

If this guy was 25 when he "came out" in 2017, he's now in his 30s, yet looks and sounds like a totally self-absorbed teenager. His poor partner, having to care for twins and cope with him at the same time. 😬

Is he not a parent then because that looks like father and or parent 🤔 maybe it isn't special enough, his "anxiety" will be through the roof with it all.

but because I was exhausted ...

Poor lamb. At least he didn't have to give birth.

"In the end I ticked the ‘father/parent’ box. It doesn’t fully acknowledge who I am, but because I was exhausted, I chose it as the easier option."

Genuinely confused - how does it not acknowledge who he is?

"I don’t identify with any gender, which makes me agender – one of the many identities under the trans and non-binary umbrella. "

I always knew we were all trans.

As a fellow agender person, I have a word that he can use that explains his relationship to his children, without having to carry any gendered connotations: "Daddy".

JFC this was what was uppermost in his mind while his newborn babies were being transferred to the special care unit???

TRAs: “it’s not all about clothes, make-up and jewellery, gender is an innate feeling”

This clown: “As soon as I was halfway through the summit, I was already fantasising about re-queering myself. I have booked an appointment to get my ears re-pierced and I will be dying my hair and getting my nails painted. On my first day back in Brighton I felt massive relief when I could put on my hot pink dungarees and go out and have no one bat an eyelid because my queer self is accepted as part of normal life here.”

I'm learning Italian and have discovered the wonderful portmanteau word nipote which means niece, nephew, grandson, granddaughter and grandchild. 😀Context and the gender of the article defines the exact meaning.

ETA Baba Yaga is a old woman or grandmother in Slavonic folklore. I gather Yaga means something like unpredictable or scary.

And a decade earlier I was a teenager in the swinging sixties when many boys started to grow their hair but many girls still had it short. I married at the end of that decade and my hair is still shorter than my husband's. 😁

What a crashing bore I couldn't finish reading it and of course the pink hair.
I know he's a man because he can't shut up about himself.

I mean to be fair to him, the one way this could be even worse is if he was actually insisting on not being called Daddy, and had complained to all the staff and was busy indoctrinating his babies. I hope they do get to have a loving Daddy and get to call him that. There's every sign he's a self-obsessed navel-gazer, but Freddie is worse in insisting on being "dad".