Transgender Netflix Writer to Seek Sperm Donor During Stage Show: ‘Witness Queer Family-Making’

Krishna Istha poses for a promotional image for her live show "First Trimester."
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A transgender writer for the Netflix series Sex Education is launching a stage show about the search for a sperm donor, with the spectacle being promoted as “a rare opportunity to contribute to and witness queer family-making.”

Krishna Istha is a woman who presents herself as male but identifies as neither and uses they/them pronouns.

“First Trimester,” which begins performances in November at the Battersea Arts Centre in London, is being billed as a conceptual piece of theater that will feature Istha interacting with volunteer audience members as part of the search for a sperm donor.

The show will eventually be turned into a Netflix documentary.

Each performance will last three hours, though ticket holders are free to leave before then.

“This groundbreaking performance offers a rare opportunity to contribute to and witness queer family-making,” the Battersea’s official site says.

In the past, Istha has written about the personal search for gender identity.

“I’ve always shunned gender roles: I’m not a woman, and I never want to be a man, and yet I have this colossal need to be both,” Istha once wrote.

“From as young as I can remember, people have called me a tomboy. It’s a term that resonates with me, but not something I necessarily identify with. I feel the same about terms like ‘woman’ and ‘man’. Instead, I like the idea of being an amalgamation of experiences.”

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