“I’ve always wanted to have kids one day,” says Freddy McConnell in a trailer for “Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth.” “I’m going to have my own baby and I will be a dad.” Jeanie Finlay’s latest doc follows the young, gay transgender man’s pregnancy journey.

In addition to introducing Freddy, the spot also features his mother. “As a trans man, to carry your own child is a scary, daunting prospect. You just worry for your child. That he won’t be happy,” she explains.

“Meeting Freddy made me reflect deeply on my own experiences of being pregnant and becoming a parent, and the ways in which these changes affected my own sense of identity in unpredictable and unfathomable ways,” Finlay told us. “After becoming a parent, I felt like I was now outlined in bold, amplified by the time and the experience of pregnancy, of giving birth, and having a child to love and look after. I was intrigued and fascinated by how this would affect Freddy, a transgender man — someone who had already experienced profound physical and emotional transitions in his life. How would this new emotional and mercurial experience affect him? What would be the impact on his sense of identity? What would the small, personal, domestic, and intimate details of that experience be, and what would they look like on film for an audience?”

Finlay hopes audiences are able to “embrace both the complexity of Freddy’s journey and the simple idea that Freddy is a man and that his gender didn’t change when he got pregnant and gave birth. He was male at every single stage of his pregnancy and experienced it as a man. It’s a simple but profound idea and is new or unfamiliar to many people,” she observed.

“Game of Thrones: The Last Watch,” “Orion: The Man Who Would Be King ,” and “Sound It Out” are among Finlay’s other credits.

“Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth” will be available on digital and on-demand June 16.