Sam Kerr is a great Australian sportswoman, admired the world over for her footballing prowess.
She announced yesterday that her girlfriend is pregnant. And decent people everywhere would wish Sam’s girlfriend and her child every happiness.
None of that is to say that decent people need to agree to be gaslit what is going on here.
Take, for instance, The Guardian’s headline …
“Sam Kerr and partner Kristie Mewis announce they are having a baby.”
While it is true that Sam Kerr is having a baby that she intends to raise with her girlfriend, it’s not true that Sam and her girlfriend “are having a baby”.
That’s a biological impossibility.
Or this line from News.com.au
The Matildas captain on Monday night announced she is set to become a mum, confirming news her partner Kristie Mewis is pregnant.
People who have not yet be reprogrammed might read that line and think, hang on, how is Sam Kerr becoming a mum when it is Kristie Mewis who is pregnant?
Sam Kerr herself put out a social media post that read …
“Mewis-Kerr baby coming 2025!”
Again, people whose brains have not yet been completely rewired baulked at that.
It can’t be a Mewis-Kerr baby. There is no universe in which there could ever be a Mewis-Kerr baby.
Do I need to spell it out? Two women can’t make a baby.
Semantics?
For those who think tolerance and diversity trumps biological reality, yes.
To those people, pointing out the biological reality is worse than unnecessary, it’s abuse.
The media were today shaming those who dared to raise the subject of biology as homophobes …
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