Transgender Man Who Gave Birth Goes Off On Nurses Who Called Him ‘Mom’
A transgender man was not here for the nurses at a hospital calling him a “mother” after he gave birth.
Los Angeles resident Bennett Kasper-Williams was not happy with his experience at the hospital he was at. The 37-year-old gave birth via caesarean to a healthy baby boy, but spoke out after he was troubled by constant misgendering statements.
“No one can ever really know whether having children is possible until you try — being born with a uterus doesn’t make conceiving or carrying a certainty,” the father — who began transitioning in 2014 — shared of his parenthood journey. “That’s why it’s so important that we stop defining ‘womanhood’ in terms of ‘motherhood,’ because it’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.”
Kasper-Williams began his transition in 2014 after he realized he was trans in 2011. He saved his money to pay for a $5,000 surgery which was for the top part of his body but not for the bottom.
“It was really liberating,” he said of the surgery to remove his breasts. “I never could have anticipated what a relief it would be to find them gone. It was a huge weight off my shoulders.”