I’m both angry and nonplussed at this report in the New York Post.
In Oct. 2020, Los Angeles resident Bennett Kaspar-Williams, 37, gave birth via caesarean to a healthy baby boy with his husband, Malik.
But in the process of having little Hudson, Kaspar-Williams was troubled by the constant misgendering of him by hospital staff who insisted on calling him a “mom,” the Daily Mail reported.
“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 — said 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.”
Kaspar-Williams realized he was trans in 2011 and began transitioning in 2014, a process which included getting a $5,000-surgery on the top but not the bottom half of his body.
“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.”
The process of trying to conceive, being successful, and being pregnant were not challenging to his gender identity, he said. In fact the only real cause of unease regarding it was the way medical professionals continually assumed his gender.
“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,” he said. “The business of pregnancy — and yes, I say business, because the entire institution of pregnancy care in America is centered around selling this concept of ‘motherhood’ — is so intertwined with gender that it was hard to escape being misgendered.”
There’s more at the link.
That’s so ridiculous it’s beyond pathetic, all the way to mind-boggling insanity. Let’s get one thing clear. It’s beyond scientific and medical question – absolutely, certainly, irrevocably true – that a man cannot get pregnant or give birth. A man doesn’t have the physical organs necessary to do that, and doesn’t have female chromosomes to start with. Pregnancy is always, everywhere and only a female issue. I don’t care what an individual pretends to be, or wants to be, or is convinced they are – if they’re pregnant and give birth, they are not a man. Period. (You should pardon the expression.)
If anyone expects me to humor their delusions and refer to them by lying about their sex, that’s their problem. It’s not mine, and I won’t do it. “Mr.” Kaspar-Williams expects me to enable “him” by calling “him” what “he” isn’t. I won’t.
It’s long gone time that we stopped this nonsense of pretending that the politically correct, transgendered Emperor has new clothes. In this case, the Empress is still female, stark naked (metaphorically speaking), and gibbering about it. Having already lost her head, it’s time she lost her crown, too.
Peter
It appears this child will not be breast-fed. So sad.
Somehow parody become some folks reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBOQzSk14c
Monty Python was like 35 years to early…
I am waitingfor the day that my department gets sued by one of these mental patients. Our electronic patient care report (PCR) has only two choices; MALE or FEMALE and an entry is based solely on patient physiology, my observations, and my data entry. Some day a report will be pulled for a slip-n-fall lawyer, and when someone that will be offended sees the gender I selected that they don't agree with… well, it could get ugly.
If an individual wants to pretend they're a genderless, magical unicorn, and live their life that way, I'm fine with that. However, when it comes to medical care such an individual needs to deal with reality, not fantasy. Also don't expect medical professionals to ignore their training and reality and refer to you as something you're not. If being called "Mom" after giving birth, when you believe you're a male is the the worst thing that can happen to you, you're pathetic. Dare I say "man-up?"
I don't understandd why "this person" needed a caesarean; could've delivered the baby out their rectum.
Did the surgeons do more than just deliver the baby?
And the folks who report on this as it it were normal are the same folks that try to control "Misinformation" on the internet….
The deeper question that needs addressing: how do Ms. Kaspar-Hyphen and others like her become so narcissistic that they require everyone around them to dump their fundamental understanding of reality, the most basic assumptions that give our lives coherence, to cater to Ms. Kaspar-Hyphen's delusions? And why are there so many like her?
Part of the answer lies in the breakdown of social ties throughout the West. People have become atomized through many forces, from geographic mobility to family breakdown to consumerism to economic dislocation to increasingly meaningless work to the disappearance of real community to positivism and the loss of faith to a sustained attack on the family and social coherence by the media. We see this in the way that the idea of "identity" has changed: whereas your identity was once bound up in your family, deep friendships, religion, and roles in your local community, now these sources of self-grounding have atrophied to the point where for many people, "identity" is entirely about superficial things like your consumer tastes, your tattoos, and what kinds of people you want to have sex with. Which really means no identity at all. Without meaningful social integration or social roles woven into the community, people become unmoored from reality and start demanding their own imaginary realities.
with his husband, Malik.
Aaand, that is where I stopped.
I swear this crap will doom the human race. God help me, maybe it time Ya smites Sodem and Gommorah again… can we get em all in one place?
I am now spending Christmas with family not speaking to me because I dared to say that that jeopardy contestant isnt a woman. No amount of weird simpering and pearl-fiddling will make it so. The universities have turned my kids into woke monsters. I'm about ready to just go live in a van somewhere.
It's sad not to be with family but it's long past time to cater to the delusions. BTW jen, me too.
Jen:
"I'm about ready to just go live in a van somewhere."
Don't park in my spot, please. 🙂
I just filled out a survey from my possibly-former employer. The gender question had six choices…
The STUPID is STRONG is some "people"…
Why are there still stories and articles confirming and promoting the behavior of these freaks?
Yes, they are freaks. They don't believe in God, so then they believe in Darwin and evolution…. so in REAL EVOLUTION, these ones would have been killed by the others and never permitted to breed.
I wonder if the hormones itvwas on had any effect on the child.
This is sad
I'm surprised this wasn't in the NYT! Not that I'd read anything in the NYT…