Transgender Man, Bennett Kaspar-Williams, is pissed off all because a medical staff called him ‘mother’ after he gave birth to a bouncy baby boy.
Bennett was expecting the staff to call him ‘father’ but since that never happened, he had to call the medical staff out.
These things can get confusing unless you asked specifically. Seems like an honest mistake, since men can’t get pregnant, but women who are transgender have the right to be referred to by whatever the like.
Bennett Kaspar-Williams, 37, from Los Angeles, first realised he was trans around ten years ago, in 2011, but didn’t begin his transition until three years later. Then six years later, in 2017 he found Malik, his future husband – who he married in 2019.
The couple decided that they wanted to have children, and weighed the options available to them because it meant Bennett stopping the testosterone hormone therapy he’d been on for several years to enable his ovaries to function.
Bennett, who has had surgery 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. He fell pregnant naturally soon after they started trying, and the couple welcomed their son Hudson, via Cesarean section, in October 2020.
Two years after beginning hormone treatment, in the summer of 2015, Bennett had surgery to remove his breasts – paying $5,000 for the procedure. Recalling how it took the operation to make him realise how unhappy he was about having female breasts, he said: ‘It was really liberating. I had this feeling that it was something that I needed to do, but I never had a self-hatred of my breasts, like some trans people.
I know it is all a bit confusing, but these are the changing times we are in, I figured in 20 years this will be seen as normal.
What do you think?
Was the hospital staff in the wrong? I honestly don’t think so.
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