Unwanted pregnancy is a traumatic experience. The threat of unwanted pregnancy can be a traumatic experience.
I can't believe I have to say this, but discourse is again popping up and it's important to me that y'all know which side I'm on in this.
Part of being in the trans community is accepting that the trauma you have with your body and its functions may be antithetical to the trauma other trans people have with their bodies. It's absolutely critical that we don't allow this fact to compromise our solidarity.
This is a particularly salient point when discussing pregnancy and reproduction. Some trans men desire pregnancies, and it is great for them if they do! But many trans men do not desire to be pregnant at all, and wish to be sterilized. That is not a tragedy.
It is also no one's business besides the individual. Feminist thinking requires that individuals be able to make their own choices about their reproduction and bodily autonomy. To resent the choices others make with their bodies is a violation of these tenets.
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