An American transgender man, Bennet Kasper-Williams, 37, has complained that nurses insisted on calling him ‘mom’ during his pregnancy despite being a man.
According to The Sun, the Los Angeles native realised he was trans around ten years ago, in 2011, but didn’t begin his transition until three years later. Then six years later he met his husband Malik who he married in 2019.
The couple decided they wanted to have children and Bennet subsequently got pregnant naturally soon after they started trying. He gave birth to a baby boy,via cesarean section, in October 2020
But according to Bennet while in the hospital he said he was constantly misgendered – even with a beard and a flat chest.
“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. Even with a full beard, a flat chest, and a ‘male’ gender marker on all my identification, people could not help but default to calling me “mom”, “mother”, or “ma’am”.That was what made me dysphoric.
Nothing about being pregnant felt “feminine” to me – 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’ve ever done. Nothing feels stronger than being able to say I’m a dad who created my own child,” he said. ?: Instagram/BennettOnPurpos
