About

Licensed Midwife Liam Kali (he/they) has dedicated their career to improving the lives of LGBTQ+ families having babies. Over the past 25+ years, Liam’s work has impacted countless queer and trans parents, both in private practice as a health care provider and as a strong advocate for gender inclusivity within the childbirth professions. Liam attended over 600 births before retiring from catching babies, and he still provides adjunct care to LGBTQ+ families and solo parents by choice through pregnancy groups, childbirth classes and early parenting support programs.

Broadly regarded as the foremost authority in queer family building, donor insemination and midwife-led IUI, Liam's current clinical focus is fertility and donor conception. Liam's approach is evidence-based, body-positive, queer-centered, and gender-inclusive, providing clinical reproductive care while nurturing the emotional and relational aspects of the transition to parenthood. In addition to providing tele-health consultations and individualized fertility care to families across the US, Canada and beyond, Liam's book, Queer Conception: The Complete Fertility Guide for Queer and Trans Parents-to-Be has expanded access to culturally sensitive, clinically appropriate information for families everywhere who make their babies with love and science.

Liam has expanded the practice of midwifery by providing an advanced practice course for midwives in Therapeutic Donor Insemination since 2016, and he continues to provide training and consulting services for midwives associations and midwifery education programs throughout the US and Canada. Liam continues to be an enthusiastically received speaker at conferences, professional associations and university lecture halls, as well as providing continuing education for all childbirth professionals.

Liam’s recent policy work includes co-authoring the forthcoming LGBTQ+ Practice Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Guideline, “Fertility Care and Family Building for LGBTQ+ Individuals” as well as serving on the Expert Working Group and Technical Expert Panels for the forthcoming publication by the US Department of Health and Human Services, "Providing Quality Family Planning Services in the U.S.: Revised 2024 Recommendations of the U.S. Office of Population Affairs."

Liam is a parent of four grown children and shares their empty nest in Seattle, WA with two cats. Liam has marked major life transitions by taking on chosen names. In the late 1990s, as a student of religion and young parent heeding the call to midwifery, they chose the last name Kali in honor of the Hindu goddess and Divine Mother who embodies the paradigm of creation/destruction, which is so deeply integral to the transformation to parenthood. Now, as a nonbinary transmasculine person navigating hormonal gender affirmation during the passage into crone-hood, Liam has taken this new name in honor of their genetic Irish, German and English ancestry, in reflection of lived experience within Jewish communities, and in resonance with their dedication as an “unwavering protector” of “my people”.