{"id":124981,"date":"2021-12-24T12:38:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T11:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=124981"},"modified":"2021-12-24T12:38:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T11:38:52","slug":"transgender-man-who-gave-birth-slams-nurses-who-call-him-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/24\/transgender-man-who-gave-birth-slams-nurses-who-call-him-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender man who gave birth slams nurses who call him &#8216;mom&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A transgender man, Bennett Kaspar-Williams has complained that nurses insisted on calling him &#8220;mom&#8221; during his pregnancy despite being a man.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-years-old man from Los Angeles, was born biologically female but first realised he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/05\/07\/video-three-transgender-women-beaten-forced-to-strip-by-men-in-benin-republic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trans<\/a> around ten years ago, in 2011, but didn&#8217;t begin his transition until three years later.<\/p>\n<p>Then six years later, in 2017 he found Malik, his future husband, who he married in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>When they decided to have kids, Bennett stopped the testosterone hormone therapy he&#8217;d been on for several years to enable his ovaries to function.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett, who has had gender reassigning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/05\/13\/transgender-woman-jailed-for-15-years-for-robbing-bank-to-pay-for-cosmetic-surgery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surgery<\/a> on the top half of his body but not on his genitalia, eventually decided that he would be comfortable trying to conceive and carrying a child.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-124984 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/kunlenet07\/2021\/12\/24\/Bennett-Kaspar-Williams-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/kunlenet07\/2021\/12\/24\/Bennett-Kaspar-Williams-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/kunlenet07\/2021\/12\/24\/Bennett-Kaspar-Williams-2-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/kunlenet07\/2021\/12\/24\/Bennett-Kaspar-Williams-2-768x751.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He fell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/23\/pregnant-women-protest-closure-of-ante-natal-services-in-edo-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pregnant<\/a> naturally soon after they started trying. He found out he was pregnant in March 2020 and the couple welcomed their son Hudson, via Cesarean section, in October 2020.<\/p>\n<p>But in the process of having little Hudson, Bennett Kaspar-Williams was troubled by the constant misgendering of him by hospital staff who insisted on calling him a &#8220;mom&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett said: &#8220;I always knew it was a possibility that my body might achieve pregnancy, but it wasn&#8217;t something I ever wanted to do until I learned how to separate the function of my body from any notions of gender.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once I learned to think of my body as a tool and not a collection of gendered stereotypes, I realized that I could both be the person I wanted to and bring a child into the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No one can ever really know whether having children is possible until you try &#8211; being born with a uterus doesn&#8217;t make conceiving or carrying a certainty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s so important that we stop defining &#8216;womanhood&#8217; in terms of &#8216;motherhood&#8217;, because it&#8217;s a false equivalency that all women can become mothers, that all mothers carry their children, or that all people who carry children are mothers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;None of those things are universally true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But while in the hospital, Bennett says he was constantly misgendered, despite having a beard and a flat chest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only thing that made me dysphoric about my pregnancy was the misgendering that happened to me when I was getting medical care for my pregnancy,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-124985 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/kunlenet07\/2021\/12\/24\/Bennett-Kaspar-Williams-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/kunlenet07\/2021\/12\/24\/Bennett-Kaspar-Williams-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/kunlenet07\/2021\/12\/24\/Bennett-Kaspar-Williams-3-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The business of pregnancy &#8211; and yes, I say business, because the entire institution of pregnancy care in America is centred around selling this concept of &#8216;motherhood&#8217; &#8211; is so intertwined with gender that it was hard to escape being misgendered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even with a full beard, a flat chest, and a &#8216;male&#8217; gender marker on all my identification, people could not help but default to calling me &#8216;mom&#8217;, &#8216;mother&#8217;, or &#8216;ma&#8217;am&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was what made me dysphoric.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing about being pregnant felt &#8216;feminine&#8217; to me &#8211; in fact, I think carrying a child, isolated due to the pandemic, and facing all the hospitals and appointments alone was the absolute toughest, bravest thing I&#8217;ve ever done.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing feels stronger than being able to say I&#8217;m a dad who created my own child.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A transgender man, Bennett Kaspar-Williams has complained that nurses insisted on calling him &#8220;mom&#8221; during his pregnancy despite being a man. 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