Danielle Jones, OBGYN, has been mentioned a few times here. Some years ago, during the Year of St. Floyd, she came out with a video arguing that science is inclusive and that trans people are valid. A month ago, I posted a tweet of hers saying 'all vulvas were valid', in response to Jessica Pin, the clitoral anatomist woman. Let it be known this woman is a deceptive, lying fuck and should be called Mama Miss Ann instead.
First, she wonders whether TERFs originate from a Discord server, before denying that teenage girls get their tits chopped off.
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She complains about medical misogyny, which miraculously exists now.
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The tweet she was replying too has yet another porch monkey insisting that it isn't just women who give birth...while responding to a tweet called 'Every Mom Counts'.
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It got the noggin jogging. Does this Shanequa know what the other half of her race is called? Well, dear Farmers, you wouldn't be surprised to know that yes, yes she does. These were picked up from her timeline, by searching 'black men.'
Other black men on the Internet are just white men in 'blackface'.
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White men stole obstetrics from black women - er, birthing bodies.
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I can see why black OBGYN twitter/Science twitter is always bitching and moaning: they only produce under 700 STEM graduates (from 2012 data).
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She does indeed have several papers published, one of which is viewed
here. What is meant to be a study on issues affecting black women is changed to 'birthing communities', because white supremacy or some shit. They use the term 'woman' interchangeably.
Of note:
Both traditional and novel measures of structural racism, such as neighborhood-level segregation
15,
16,
17,
18 and county-level
disparities in incarceration and elected officials,
19 have been shown to correlate with poorer perinatal health outcomes for
Black birthing people. In a retrospective analysis of ~4700
Black women using census track data linked to
electronic medical record data, high levels of neighborhood-level segregation were independently associated with higher odds of spontaneous
preterm birth, even after controlling for neighborhood poverty, insurance status, parity, and maternal medical conditions.
18 Therefore, there is a clear need for models of care and interventions that target structural racism if inequity is to be eliminated systematically, with both scientific and cultural rigor,
20 relevance, and responsiveness.
So, whenever someone wants to tell you this language is never used, here's a perfect example. It's even in their glossary:
Perinatal and reproductive healthcare (PRH) | Health care services, within and outside of hospital settings, that pertain to the following: pregnancy, labor, birth, post-birth, stillbirth, neonatal loss, lactation, miscarriage/pregnancy loss, (in)fertility, contraception, and abortion. |
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Black birthing people* | A gender-inclusive term is referring to people who identify racially as Black and have the physiologic capacity for pregnancy and childbirth. This includes, but is not limited to, Black cisgendered women, Black transgendered men, as well as Black gender non-conforming, Black genderqueer, and Black non-binary individuals. |
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Structural racism | Macrolevel systems, social forces, institutions, ideologies, and processes that interact with one another to generate and reinforce inequities among racial and ethnic groups. Mechanisms of structural racism do not require the actions or intent of individuals.13 |
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Interpersonal racism | Personally-mediated racism; prejudice and discrimination, where prejudice means differential assumptions about the abilities, motives, and intentions of others according to their race, and discrimination means differential actions toward others according to their race.12 |
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Obstetric racism | An occurrence and analytic that best captures the unique experiences and conditions of Black mothers and birthing people's reproductive and perinatal care during pregnancy, labor, and birth at the intersections of obstetric violence and medical racism; a threat to positive birth outcomes
T.he intersection of medical racism (patient's race influences medical professionals' perceptions, treatments, and/or diagnostic decisions) and obstetric violence.28 |
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Obstetric violence | A form of gender-based violence experienced by people giving birth who are subjected to acts of violence that result in their being subordinated because they are obstetric patients. The term suggests that institutional violence and violence against women coalesces during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum.28 |
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On reproductive justice:
Reproductive justice as health services praxis
While structural and obstetric racism negatively impact patient-centered access to PRH, RJ promotes equitable PRH access for Black birthing people. Coined by twelve Black women scholars and activists in 1994, RJ encompasses Black feminist ideology,
reproductive rights, and social justice to contextualize reproductive health within an intersectional human rights framework.
27 Here, we rearticulate the grounding principles of RJ for the purposes of our analysis of PRH models of care:
- (1)
Every person has the right to decide if and when to become pregnant and to determine the optimal conditions under which they will birth with equitable access and utilization of culturally relevant options and opportunities for pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum.
- (2)
Every person has the right to prevent or end a pregnancy and can do so via options that are accessible, approachable, acceptable, available and accommodating, affordable, and appropriate.
- (3)
Individuals have the right to parent children they already have with dignity and with the necessary social supports in safe, affordable, and sustainable environments and healthy, thriving communities without fear or threat of violence, intimidation, coercion, or control from individuals or the government.
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Individuals have the right to disassociate sex from reproduction and that healthy sexuality and pleasure are essential components to whole and full human life.20,47
Later, they insist they want same-race physicians to treat blacks, but race doesn't exist:
In addition to workforce diversification, rethinking our current systems of physician supremacy and individual-level risk reduction in medical education and service provision in PRH must be a priority. Individual and community experiences with PRH exist within a complex web of social, political, and historical context in which we live, work, worship, eat, play, and seek pleasure. Given the history of genocide and oppression rooted in organized medicine, we must begin by acknowledging that we cannot build therapeutic relationships with Black communities in systems that replicate oppression and further reinforce mistrust and inequity. Medical education's legacy of racism,
14 class exploitation and gender oppression
64 has led to limited training opportunities for aspiring Black physicians
65 and to the degradation of Black midwifery as an esteemed and essential profession and service,
66,
67 particularly for minorized and marginalized birthing communities. Furthermore, we must replace systems of medical education that
erroneously teach race as biologic determinant of health and Black bodies as broken with those that affirm the inherent value of Black bodies, lives, and communities.
But it doesn't happen.
Back to MDJ, as she was the original point of this post. Mama Miss Ann loves reblogging sassy black doctors as a means to show she absolutely isn't racist and is in the fight with them. She also loves troons, so her response to hawking HRT to minors is as you expect.
Every angry TERF means a troon "gets their HRT wings".
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Worrying about kids getting their dicks turned inside out is a 'moral panic.'
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Because the alternative is to agree they're a little girl and give them puberty blockers, you crazy bitch.

AFAB persons and birth trauma. Because it's so hard to use the word 'woman'.
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Just remember: all vulvas are valid~~
Edit: the double post has been fixed. The site was wonky when I initially posted it, and crashed. It should read better now.