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1. Abortion access is an issue of misogyny. The core of contention is women: women’s autonomy, women’s bodies, women’s personhood. By inherence abortion is a women’s issue; it isn’t made separable from women by means of abortions performed on trans men and nonbinary people, nor by means of women, cis or trans, whose physiology precludes need of abortion. Gender-neutral language in discussions of abortion access is impossible. The alienation of women isn’t neutral; it’s an attack. Obfuscating misogyny is misogyny.
2. Medical care providers must respect trans patients and requested gender-related terminology, absolutely.
These aren’t at odds.
Leslie Feinberg on trans exclusion in feminist spaces.
“We’re in danger of losing what the entire second wave of feminism, what the entire second wave of women’s liberation was built on, and that was ‘Biology is not destiny’. ‘One is not born a woman,’ Simone de Beauvoir said, ‘one becomes one’. Now there’s some place where transsexual women and other women intersect. Biological determinism has been used for centuries as a weapon against women, in order to justify a second-class and oppressed status. How on Earth, then, are you going to pick up the weapon of biological determinism and use it to liberate yourself? It’s a reactionary tool.”
From TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism, issue 7, volume 1. 1995.
Yes, come on in!
Yes, yes, come in to my cabin, watch your step please.
You Have A Lovely Hombe
Thank you, Horace. Sit, make yourself at hombe. Or would you like to play a game of Billiards in my special room over here?
Oh I Just Love To Play Balls
We’ll get along splendidly, then.
Some wine?
Oh Enough Chit-Chat And Lets Talk Creams.
Go on.
Well I Just Love Creams. Well They Taste Good. And. Oh The Texture An-
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*puts an estradiol patch under my tongue like i’m dropping acid*
The other day I was at a house party and a guy saw me taking my estradiol and asked if he could have one
Irene that was a veiled cry for help
