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Doordash drama: over on r/Doordash, a post erupts into flames when a poster is concerned about seeing more and more men using female dasher names; because this is Reddit, of course, troons 'n' poons flock to the post to immediately complain about how they are the ones in real danger. In a rare moment of Redditors having functioning neural pathways, they actually fight back against the gender menace, though not without taking some swings at undocumented immigrants and ex-convicts. (Sorry for the jackass formatting; I nipped away with this post from r/ SubredditDrama and had to manually archive all of the links provided myself.)
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And for those keeping watch at home, the r/trans Pooner Uprising continues onward as posts scattered across r/trans still seem resentful of how everything went down. Of course, since troons 'n' poons are, at their core, virulent misogynists, they still find ways to imply that it's regular biological women who are at fault for the cracks in their shared armor.
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Also, enjoy this needlessly long and stupid article about how the real victims of the restriction of reproductive rights are actually pooners, desperately clawing at the heels of women they've betrayed to have any kind of solidarity whatsoever. I felt an imperative to post this after reading the phrase "abortion is gender affirming care," which made my eyeballs melt out of my head despite being pro-choice! Some days I yearn to hang out in dark fields under the veil of stars in the hopes that aliens mistake me for a cow and take me away from this stupid planet.Doordash is delivering drama about gender and dasher names
Doordash is for both customers and drivers of the delivery app. OP creates a post, complaining an increase in the number of drivers using women's names even though they are men.
The top comments begin normally, explaining that many dashers buy old accounts, or create multiples. But the drama starts popping quickly under one comment.
IDC what anyone says, you have reason for concern. Should report it. There have been crimes committed using door dash, Uber, Lyft. Creeps saving the address and coming back after the delivery.
Trans men
A now deleted commenter responds with their experience as a trans man and asks that people not call the police on someone just because their name doesn't match their presentation.
Immigrants
probably isn’t a legal citizen and doesn’t have a license or insurance or credentials to use DoorDash so they bought a stolen account or had someone sign up for them
Report them for what? Probably just people dashing on a family members account. Not everyone is able to pass the verification, whether that be because of citizenship, driving record etc.
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For seven years, Izi – a 35-year-old nonbinary person living in the Bay Area – experienced chronic pain from an intrauterine device (IUD). They had resorted to the IUD to control their intense periods, the pain of which often rendered them barely able to walk. Unlike other birth control options, the device would not interfere with the testosterone they were desperate to begin taking.
Izi’s doctor repeatedly dismissed concerns that their pain was IUD-related, but Izi knew. And although they finally demanded its removal when they had their tubes tied, their suffering didn’t end.
“After all that… they said the pain I was experiencing was actually residual trauma from the IUD,” they explained. Even now, they still rely on physical therapy techniques to manage muscle contractions caused by having the device for so long. Amidst all of this, they also sought a hysterectomy but were denied.
While testosterone helped reduce the severity of Izi’s painful periods, medical providers continued to dismiss their symptoms.
“[E]ven my doctors, to this day, whenever there’s an issue that comes up, they like to blame it on my testosterone, and I have to always ask or talk to my endocrinologist and just make sure it’s not,” they said.
Izi has spent much of their life navigating a medical system that often fails trans people – especially those who are transmasc or nonbinary.
“I feel like I’ve just had a lot of interactions with medical professionals, and specifically around my trans identity, that have rarely been good,” they said. “I always have this weird feeling, or I can never tell what it is about me until much later, that it’s transphobia.”
Transmasculine people often need access to reproductive care – whether contraception, IVF, hysterectomies, pregnancy support, PrEP, or treatment for conditions like Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) or vaginal atrophy. Yet for Izi, as for many others, seeking that care has often meant facing roadblocks, discrimination, and systemic barriers.
“Conversations around reproductive rights boil down to the right of an individual to their body and the right to decide about their body. We should all be fighting for these rights, as we are all affected by them”
AJ Eckert, doctor for trans youth at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
“[It]’s a common thing that you often experience if you’re trans masc or nonbinary if you have to be in OB/GYN spaces specifically, and navigating that system, and I don’t think I would have been able to get through any of that, any of these experiences, without any type of community care outside of the hospitals,” they said. “Doctors are not as important to me as my community is.”
And transmasculine people must be at the center of both.
That’s the core message of the Repro Masculinity project, a powerful collaboration between photojournalist Ale Pedraza Buenahora and the Transgender Law Center. The project, through which Izi shared their story, offers a vital platform for transmasculine people to share their experiences with embodiment, bodily autonomy, and reproductive care, not as an afterthought, but as a central part of both gender-affirming healthcare and the broader struggle for reproductive justice.
Buenahora started the project while working as one of the few trans people at a nationwide reproductive health clinic. There, they faced repeated censorship when raising trans issues that related to the work they were doing.
“There was no nuance about it,” they said. “There was really a lot of silos that were happening that were being created by the people working on these spaces.”
From talking with their friends, Buenahora found that even within clinics and advocacy organizations ostensibly committed to reproductive rights, transmasculine patients were being denied accurate and affirming information.
One participant in the project, Chiron, was told by their doctor that some people on testosterone simply experience extremely painful periods that can last up to two weeks. “It didn’t make sense. I didn’t want to know what some people experience, I wanted to know what I’m experiencing and why,” they explained. “There’s a lot to unpack and definitely a lot of experiences with having my reproductive health ignored.”
Another participant, Cyd, shared that they were treated for gonorrhea multiple times before doing their own research and discovering that the symptoms were actually common among people who have been on testosterone for over a decade – it was vaginal atrophy, not an STI. “t was atrophy and the doctors had no f**king idea,” he said.
In short, the reproductive health industry is failing trans masculine people, with doctors seemingly caring for them the exact same way they would for cis women, despite their different needs.
“There is, at baseline, a lack of information about reproductive care for trans people, and misinformation is common,” AJ Eckert, Attending Doctor for the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine Center for Trans Youth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, told LGBTQ Nation.
“There is limited data on the sexual and reproductive health needs of trans communities, and many assumptions are made based on cisnormative and heteronormative experiences.”
“Doctors had no idea what to do with us,” Buenahora told LGBTQ Nation. So, the Reproductive Masculinity project “was born out of that necessity of being like, ‘I’m having these conversations [about reproductive healthcare] in private in my living room with my friends. How do we make this into more common knowledge?’ Because the medical system is not doing it, nor is the movement for reproductive justice.”
This gap in care and advocacy has only become more urgent in the aftermath of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022), which overturned the constitutional right to abortion. In the wake of that decision, it has become increasingly clear that the fight for reproductive justice is inseparable from the broader struggle for bodily autonomy, including the right to gender-affirming care, and that these legal attacks are part of a coordinated and interconnected campaign.
In fact, the same far-right organizations that fought to overturn Roe – including the Alliance Defending Freedom, the Heritage Foundation, and the Family Policy Alliance – are now leading the charge to ban gender-affirming care and pass sweeping anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.
These groups operate with coordinated legal strategies, shared political networks, and deep institutional resources. Their end goal is clear: Restrict bodily autonomy for all, beginning with the most marginalized.
“Right now, we’re witnessing the government strip away our bodily autonomy – banning abortion, attacking trans health care, and targeting our right to exist,” transgender rights activist Ash Lazarus Orr told LGBTQ Nation. “These fights are deeply connected and intertwined. When abortion access is under attack, so are trans people.”
Orr isn’t alone in seeing these attacks as inexorably connected. Buenahora told LGBTQ Nation that to them, “Gender affirming care and reproductive health feel a lot like one and the same, at least when it comes to me and my other trans friends and my community.”
This coordinated legal agenda is already reshaping constitutional law. Recently, in U.S. v. Skrmetti, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors by relying on Dobbs and Geduldig v. Aiello (1974) – a case that held excluding pregnancy from a state insurance plan did not amount to sex discrimination. Skrmetti is a warning: The rollback of abortion rights is just the beginning. In fact, Dobbs’ narrow reading of the Fourteenth Amendment – limiting protections to those “deeply rooted” in 19th-century history – now threatens access to contraception, as well as the rights to same-sex intimacy and marriage. These are the next rights on the chopping block.
“They’re going to go after birth control,” Buenahora told LGBTQ Nation. “They’re going to go to anything that controls… reproductive systems.”
The erosion of the right to access birth control could further complicate an already challenging process for trans men seeking care, forcing those who can afford it to travel out of state, while leaving others to rely on less reliable methods of contraception or go without it entirely.
Without this lens, transmasculine people have too often been excluded from conversations about reproductive health, even as they face some of the most severe consequences of reproductive injustice.
“Doctors had no idea what to do with us.”
Ale Pedraza Buenahora, creator of the Repro Masculinity Project
“Trans people have been historically and continue to be marginalized and experience higher rates of discrimination, stigma, violence, prejudice, poverty, and poor social support,” Eckert told LGBTQ Nation.
“In terms of health care, we have higher rates of violence while accessing care, lower rates of health insurance, and often experience refusal of treatment.”
Research shows that trans people often experience misdiagnoses and denial of care, heightened risks during pregnancy, lack of access to affirming contraception, and systemic erasure, which places their health and autonomy in jeopardy.
When trans men do choose to carry a pregnancy, they often face stigma, misgendering, and a lack of informed care.
“It was a cookie-cutter process, and I didn’t feel listened to,” said Repro Masculinity Project participant Kayne. “I got she/her all the time, and I never corrected anybody because I just didn’t want to be a bother or whatever, so I was being misgendered all the time.”
There is also a frequent refusal from medical professionals to take the experiences and symptoms of trans men seriously. After undergoing an egg retrieval procedure, Rosin, another participant, experienced chest pain and developed a persistent cough. Their symptoms were dismissed.
“I had an allergic reaction to the drugs, but the doctors didn’t believe me,” Rosin explained. “It was really scary and the medical doctors told me I should take a valium or some anxiety meds because it was probably just stress.”
In the face of this ongoing discrimination and systemic neglect, the Repro Masculinity Project offers a vital space for community care.
“It feels like all our rights are being stripped away from all the sides,” said Buenahora. “So, it’s just like, what can we go back to? To really organize and strategize. And I really like that spirit of just being like, here’s something that I made for my community.”
This sense of reclaiming space and visibility is echoed by the participants themselves, who emphasize the importance of being included in conversations too often shaped without them.
“I wanted to participate in this project because I feel like trans masculine people are kept out of the conversation when we’re discussing reproductive healthcare and reproductive justice,” Jo E said in an interview with Buenahora. “There’s something about this kind of intersectionality that isn’t easily digestible or easily condensed into storylines or soundbites. So often, trans health care and reproductive health care get siloed, but it’s important for all people to share their stories in ways that are intentional, nuanced, and where they feel empowered.”
Buenahora told LGBTQ Nation that the far-right not only sees these issues as connected, but also benefits from siloing trans rights and reproductive rights to weaken both movements. As such, it is imperative that these movements fight back by working together.
“That’s the tactics that have been used forever, right? By the far right to create silos, to separate us in order to be able to attack us more easily, even though the same exact language is being used to attack trans people and people who could get pregnant or people with reproductive bodies.”
This strategy of division not only makes it easier to target marginalized communities; it also fosters harmful silences within our own movements, Buenahora explained.
“Too many trans organizations stay silent on reproductive justice. That silence is harmful,” Orr said. “Abortion is a trans issue. Reproductive care is gender-affirming care. When our own advocacy spaces fail to acknowledge that, we fail the most vulnerable in our community – especially rural, low-income, and BIPOC transmasc people who already face enormous barriers to care.”
Orr emphasized the need for trans-led organizations to “boldly name abortion access as a trans issue.”
“Our survival depends on it,” he said.
Orr himself had an abortion he called “lifesaving.”
“Pregnancy was deeply dysphoric and traumatic. Choosing abortion allowed me to reclaim my body and protect my health; it was gender-affirming care in every sense.”
“Abortion is a trans issue. Reproductive care is gender-affirming care. When our own advocacy spaces fail to acknowledge that, we fail the most vulnerable in our community”
Ash Lazarus Orr, trans rights activist
Many of the people featured in the Repro Masculinity project also described abortion care as a form of gender-affirming care.
“Just like with my abortion, I didn’t think it was going to be gender-affirming, but what I realized immediately after is that my body felt less woman and I love it,” said Jo E.
Of course, every trans person is unique, and other participants, like Sus, absolutely loved being pregnant. For them, the care they needed was also gender-affirming. “It was the first time I was in my body in a real way–these parts of me are functioning. I felt like I had superpowers,” they said. “I loved being pregnant. I loved labor and birth, and I loved nursing too.”
The piece of all this that often gets lost is that cisgender people also rely on healthcare as a form of gender-affirming care. This includes hormone replacement therapy (HRT), which was originally developed for cisgender people, as well as a wide range of reproductive health technologies like birth control, abortion, and IVF, that help them feel more at home in their bodies and empower them to make decisions about whether or not to have children.
“Conversations around reproductive rights boil down to the right of an individual to their body and the right to decide about their body. We should all be fighting for these rights, as we are all affected by them, especially trans folk,” Eckert agreed. “Many of us have spent years or even decades asserting our rights to our bodies and the right to be ourselves, and we are acutely aware of the institutions and bad actors working overtime to usurp our control over ourselves.”
Therefore, while the Repro Masculinity Project serves as a storytelling and information hub created by trans people for trans people, Buenahora also hopes that it makes the world safer by encouraging empathy from unexpected places.
“In my wildest dream, a trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF) who’s been through like 17 rounds of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) comes and reads this, and she’s just like, ‘Maybe, I shouldn’t hate trans people so much. Maybe I should stop being a hater because I have so many things in common with these folks.'”
After all, many of the project participants invested considerable effort into family planning and actively sought to have children. Rosin, for example, has undergone multiple rounds of IVF. Both Rosin and other participants, like Kayne, have also experienced miscarriages.
“The rest of that year, in the winter, I was working through the grief and just wanting to try to get pregnant as soon as possible,” Kayne explained. “That whole year, I was really taken up with two things: the anxiety of trying to conceive, and the grief.”
As far-right legal strategies continue to target bodily autonomy from multiple angles, the Repro Masculinity project offers not just resistance, but vision. By listening to transmasculine people and centering their experiences, we can build a reproductive justice movement that’s truly liberatory for all.
“Regardless of what some may claim, including [trans people] in the larger fight for reproductive rights does not diminish cisgender women’s experiences,” Eckert explained. “We are stronger together and [can] help build a more inclusive movement, challenging obstacles to care for all people.”
Izi’s doctor repeatedly dismissed concerns that their pain was IUD-related, but Izi knew. And although they finally demanded its removal when they had their tubes tied, their suffering didn’t end.
“After all that… they said the pain I was experiencing was actually residual trauma from the IUD,” they explained. Even now, they still rely on physical therapy techniques to manage muscle contractions caused by having the device for so long. Amidst all of this, they also sought a hysterectomy but were denied.
While testosterone helped reduce the severity of Izi’s painful periods, medical providers continued to dismiss their symptoms.
“[E]ven my doctors, to this day, whenever there’s an issue that comes up, they like to blame it on my testosterone, and I have to always ask or talk to my endocrinologist and just make sure it’s not,” they said.
Izi has spent much of their life navigating a medical system that often fails trans people – especially those who are transmasc or nonbinary.
“I feel like I’ve just had a lot of interactions with medical professionals, and specifically around my trans identity, that have rarely been good,” they said. “I always have this weird feeling, or I can never tell what it is about me until much later, that it’s transphobia.”
Transmasculine people often need access to reproductive care – whether contraception, IVF, hysterectomies, pregnancy support, PrEP, or treatment for conditions like Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) or vaginal atrophy. Yet for Izi, as for many others, seeking that care has often meant facing roadblocks, discrimination, and systemic barriers.
“Conversations around reproductive rights boil down to the right of an individual to their body and the right to decide about their body. We should all be fighting for these rights, as we are all affected by them”
AJ Eckert, doctor for trans youth at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
“[It]’s a common thing that you often experience if you’re trans masc or nonbinary if you have to be in OB/GYN spaces specifically, and navigating that system, and I don’t think I would have been able to get through any of that, any of these experiences, without any type of community care outside of the hospitals,” they said. “Doctors are not as important to me as my community is.”
And transmasculine people must be at the center of both.
That’s the core message of the Repro Masculinity project, a powerful collaboration between photojournalist Ale Pedraza Buenahora and the Transgender Law Center. The project, through which Izi shared their story, offers a vital platform for transmasculine people to share their experiences with embodiment, bodily autonomy, and reproductive care, not as an afterthought, but as a central part of both gender-affirming healthcare and the broader struggle for reproductive justice.
Buenahora started the project while working as one of the few trans people at a nationwide reproductive health clinic. There, they faced repeated censorship when raising trans issues that related to the work they were doing.
“There was no nuance about it,” they said. “There was really a lot of silos that were happening that were being created by the people working on these spaces.”
From talking with their friends, Buenahora found that even within clinics and advocacy organizations ostensibly committed to reproductive rights, transmasculine patients were being denied accurate and affirming information.
One participant in the project, Chiron, was told by their doctor that some people on testosterone simply experience extremely painful periods that can last up to two weeks. “It didn’t make sense. I didn’t want to know what some people experience, I wanted to know what I’m experiencing and why,” they explained. “There’s a lot to unpack and definitely a lot of experiences with having my reproductive health ignored.”
Another participant, Cyd, shared that they were treated for gonorrhea multiple times before doing their own research and discovering that the symptoms were actually common among people who have been on testosterone for over a decade – it was vaginal atrophy, not an STI. “t was atrophy and the doctors had no f**king idea,” he said.
In short, the reproductive health industry is failing trans masculine people, with doctors seemingly caring for them the exact same way they would for cis women, despite their different needs.
“There is, at baseline, a lack of information about reproductive care for trans people, and misinformation is common,” AJ Eckert, Attending Doctor for the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine Center for Trans Youth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, told LGBTQ Nation.
“There is limited data on the sexual and reproductive health needs of trans communities, and many assumptions are made based on cisnormative and heteronormative experiences.”
“Doctors had no idea what to do with us,” Buenahora told LGBTQ Nation. So, the Reproductive Masculinity project “was born out of that necessity of being like, ‘I’m having these conversations [about reproductive healthcare] in private in my living room with my friends. How do we make this into more common knowledge?’ Because the medical system is not doing it, nor is the movement for reproductive justice.”
Reproductive justice is gender-affirming care
This gap in care and advocacy has only become more urgent in the aftermath of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022), which overturned the constitutional right to abortion. In the wake of that decision, it has become increasingly clear that the fight for reproductive justice is inseparable from the broader struggle for bodily autonomy, including the right to gender-affirming care, and that these legal attacks are part of a coordinated and interconnected campaign.
In fact, the same far-right organizations that fought to overturn Roe – including the Alliance Defending Freedom, the Heritage Foundation, and the Family Policy Alliance – are now leading the charge to ban gender-affirming care and pass sweeping anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.
These groups operate with coordinated legal strategies, shared political networks, and deep institutional resources. Their end goal is clear: Restrict bodily autonomy for all, beginning with the most marginalized.
“Right now, we’re witnessing the government strip away our bodily autonomy – banning abortion, attacking trans health care, and targeting our right to exist,” transgender rights activist Ash Lazarus Orr told LGBTQ Nation. “These fights are deeply connected and intertwined. When abortion access is under attack, so are trans people.”
Orr isn’t alone in seeing these attacks as inexorably connected. Buenahora told LGBTQ Nation that to them, “Gender affirming care and reproductive health feel a lot like one and the same, at least when it comes to me and my other trans friends and my community.”
This coordinated legal agenda is already reshaping constitutional law. Recently, in U.S. v. Skrmetti, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors by relying on Dobbs and Geduldig v. Aiello (1974) – a case that held excluding pregnancy from a state insurance plan did not amount to sex discrimination. Skrmetti is a warning: The rollback of abortion rights is just the beginning. In fact, Dobbs’ narrow reading of the Fourteenth Amendment – limiting protections to those “deeply rooted” in 19th-century history – now threatens access to contraception, as well as the rights to same-sex intimacy and marriage. These are the next rights on the chopping block.
“They’re going to go after birth control,” Buenahora told LGBTQ Nation. “They’re going to go to anything that controls… reproductive systems.”
The erosion of the right to access birth control could further complicate an already challenging process for trans men seeking care, forcing those who can afford it to travel out of state, while leaving others to rely on less reliable methods of contraception or go without it entirely.
Reclaiming space
This moment demands that reproductive rights organizations explicitly include trans people within their framework. As health care ethicist Emmeline Rabelais told LGBTQ Nation, reproductive justice “is necessary for everyone, because it is an equity-based human rights framework that makes it clear who needs/deserves specific and focused care.”Without this lens, transmasculine people have too often been excluded from conversations about reproductive health, even as they face some of the most severe consequences of reproductive injustice.
“Doctors had no idea what to do with us.”
Ale Pedraza Buenahora, creator of the Repro Masculinity Project
“Trans people have been historically and continue to be marginalized and experience higher rates of discrimination, stigma, violence, prejudice, poverty, and poor social support,” Eckert told LGBTQ Nation.
“In terms of health care, we have higher rates of violence while accessing care, lower rates of health insurance, and often experience refusal of treatment.”
Research shows that trans people often experience misdiagnoses and denial of care, heightened risks during pregnancy, lack of access to affirming contraception, and systemic erasure, which places their health and autonomy in jeopardy.
When trans men do choose to carry a pregnancy, they often face stigma, misgendering, and a lack of informed care.
“It was a cookie-cutter process, and I didn’t feel listened to,” said Repro Masculinity Project participant Kayne. “I got she/her all the time, and I never corrected anybody because I just didn’t want to be a bother or whatever, so I was being misgendered all the time.”
There is also a frequent refusal from medical professionals to take the experiences and symptoms of trans men seriously. After undergoing an egg retrieval procedure, Rosin, another participant, experienced chest pain and developed a persistent cough. Their symptoms were dismissed.
“I had an allergic reaction to the drugs, but the doctors didn’t believe me,” Rosin explained. “It was really scary and the medical doctors told me I should take a valium or some anxiety meds because it was probably just stress.”
In the face of this ongoing discrimination and systemic neglect, the Repro Masculinity Project offers a vital space for community care.
“It feels like all our rights are being stripped away from all the sides,” said Buenahora. “So, it’s just like, what can we go back to? To really organize and strategize. And I really like that spirit of just being like, here’s something that I made for my community.”
This sense of reclaiming space and visibility is echoed by the participants themselves, who emphasize the importance of being included in conversations too often shaped without them.
“I wanted to participate in this project because I feel like trans masculine people are kept out of the conversation when we’re discussing reproductive healthcare and reproductive justice,” Jo E said in an interview with Buenahora. “There’s something about this kind of intersectionality that isn’t easily digestible or easily condensed into storylines or soundbites. So often, trans health care and reproductive health care get siloed, but it’s important for all people to share their stories in ways that are intentional, nuanced, and where they feel empowered.”
Buenahora told LGBTQ Nation that the far-right not only sees these issues as connected, but also benefits from siloing trans rights and reproductive rights to weaken both movements. As such, it is imperative that these movements fight back by working together.
“That’s the tactics that have been used forever, right? By the far right to create silos, to separate us in order to be able to attack us more easily, even though the same exact language is being used to attack trans people and people who could get pregnant or people with reproductive bodies.”
This strategy of division not only makes it easier to target marginalized communities; it also fosters harmful silences within our own movements, Buenahora explained.
“Too many trans organizations stay silent on reproductive justice. That silence is harmful,” Orr said. “Abortion is a trans issue. Reproductive care is gender-affirming care. When our own advocacy spaces fail to acknowledge that, we fail the most vulnerable in our community – especially rural, low-income, and BIPOC transmasc people who already face enormous barriers to care.”
Orr emphasized the need for trans-led organizations to “boldly name abortion access as a trans issue.”
“Our survival depends on it,” he said.
Empathy from unexpected places
Orr himself had an abortion he called “lifesaving.”
“Pregnancy was deeply dysphoric and traumatic. Choosing abortion allowed me to reclaim my body and protect my health; it was gender-affirming care in every sense.”
“Abortion is a trans issue. Reproductive care is gender-affirming care. When our own advocacy spaces fail to acknowledge that, we fail the most vulnerable in our community”
Ash Lazarus Orr, trans rights activist
Many of the people featured in the Repro Masculinity project also described abortion care as a form of gender-affirming care.
“Just like with my abortion, I didn’t think it was going to be gender-affirming, but what I realized immediately after is that my body felt less woman and I love it,” said Jo E.
Of course, every trans person is unique, and other participants, like Sus, absolutely loved being pregnant. For them, the care they needed was also gender-affirming. “It was the first time I was in my body in a real way–these parts of me are functioning. I felt like I had superpowers,” they said. “I loved being pregnant. I loved labor and birth, and I loved nursing too.”
The piece of all this that often gets lost is that cisgender people also rely on healthcare as a form of gender-affirming care. This includes hormone replacement therapy (HRT), which was originally developed for cisgender people, as well as a wide range of reproductive health technologies like birth control, abortion, and IVF, that help them feel more at home in their bodies and empower them to make decisions about whether or not to have children.
“Conversations around reproductive rights boil down to the right of an individual to their body and the right to decide about their body. We should all be fighting for these rights, as we are all affected by them, especially trans folk,” Eckert agreed. “Many of us have spent years or even decades asserting our rights to our bodies and the right to be ourselves, and we are acutely aware of the institutions and bad actors working overtime to usurp our control over ourselves.”
Therefore, while the Repro Masculinity Project serves as a storytelling and information hub created by trans people for trans people, Buenahora also hopes that it makes the world safer by encouraging empathy from unexpected places.
“In my wildest dream, a trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF) who’s been through like 17 rounds of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) comes and reads this, and she’s just like, ‘Maybe, I shouldn’t hate trans people so much. Maybe I should stop being a hater because I have so many things in common with these folks.'”
After all, many of the project participants invested considerable effort into family planning and actively sought to have children. Rosin, for example, has undergone multiple rounds of IVF. Both Rosin and other participants, like Kayne, have also experienced miscarriages.
“The rest of that year, in the winter, I was working through the grief and just wanting to try to get pregnant as soon as possible,” Kayne explained. “That whole year, I was really taken up with two things: the anxiety of trying to conceive, and the grief.”
As far-right legal strategies continue to target bodily autonomy from multiple angles, the Repro Masculinity project offers not just resistance, but vision. By listening to transmasculine people and centering their experiences, we can build a reproductive justice movement that’s truly liberatory for all.
“Regardless of what some may claim, including [trans people] in the larger fight for reproductive rights does not diminish cisgender women’s experiences,” Eckert explained. “We are stronger together and [can] help build a more inclusive movement, challenging obstacles to care for all people.”
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Lastly, a tranny cannot seem to understand why stealing his sister's clothes is wrong, but it's not quite the same if she takes his clothes instead. I feel like he's burying the lede in terms of what kind of clothes he wants to take from her... but surely that's just my unpacked transphobia talking, right?
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The adage, "if men could give birth there'd be an abortion clinic on every corner" clearly isn't taken seriously, as trans men are now pregnant men and nothing has changed.
In related news, a Pajeeta doesn't like to be called a bourgeoise NEET, stuck in her shit hole of Bangladesh while valiantly fighting for trans prostitutes.
Another ponders why "cis" gay spaces are so mich different from trans ones:
Stabby_Pencil
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They will either never get it because the absorbed the falsehoods that NGOs have been spewing out over the last decade, or they will and realize every single person they thought was wrong and fought so vehemently against were right all along. That humble pie will come with a slice of crow.
Extra: I think you need a drink for reading this insanity.
poggers
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Away from the magic of angles, makeup and photoshop, Hunter Schaeffer is so ugly. I remember watching the movie Cuckoo and thinking who is this hideous person they cast as the teenage "daughter"? He has a big nose, sloping brow ridge and an overbite. If an actual woman had that face, she'd never be cast in anything.
I bring up TERFs because this is the same kind of logic they use on trans women. “These are just evil men who want to invade women’s spaces,” which makes any trans woman just men.
It’s a similar thing with trans men, where anyone who is transmasc and trans men are evil too, because they “are trying to be men.”
No surprise pooners can't understand basic logic. If TERFS are saying "Men who pretend to be women to invade women's spaces are evil", they aren't therefore saying ALL men are evil. They're saying this group of perverts is evil. So why would they think transmen are evil? Even if they DID think all men are evil, they would exclude transmen from this because they don't think they're men.
TERFS actually think pooners are just sad, easily influenced, probably autistic women who hate being sexualised for being female and are dumb enough to believe gender woo gives them an "out". Source, am a TERF.
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Really, anyone with orifices in their pelvis should consider the possibility of a water slide douche/enema... and estimate how many other guests may have already had the same water in their rectum. Happens enough on normal-height slides, and is merely unpleasant then.
Women do have it worse as far as hydrostatic injuries go--consider the term "traumatic cloaca" (archive pending) --but there are plenty of female waterskiers and jet skiers who take the recommended, sensible precaution of neoprene ride shorts in case of falling off something that goes even faster than a water slide. Men wear them too; a rectum is a rectum and a few millimeters of neoprene is worth months of complex rectal reconstruction.
So there's a practical, not even particularly unusual answer to her situation. Buy some rectum-protecting shorts and get your Austrian water slide on!
That seems more linear and solution-driven than posting paragraphs of self-doubt on Reddit about it, but then again I'm not even pretending to be a man. Aren't Germanic people supposed to be practical?
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I feel bad for Bo Bragason because Xitter retards are going to harass her over their little fancast not being made official
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Our beloved autist needs a custom badge or something for extraordinary contribution and unwavering commitment to milking trooncows.
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This guy is so funny, like WTF is this. Flamingo legs. That cutesy pose with the mopey nob face. It looks like someone pasted on a generic head from the Guess Who game. Why is a ginger wearing a red leotard? He's a candy cane crossed with Prince Harry. If I saw this thing IRL I'd think it was a sign of the apocalypse
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The urge to drop-kick him in the knees is irresistible.
Jacques1194
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TIM wonders if he can wear a binder and still be a trans woman. Here's an idea, stop taking estrogen and problem solve. Also, notice the comment about how not all women want boobs. These are the same people who tell teenage girls that if they don't like their breasts that it makes them trans, but its ok for a TIM to hate his and still get validation for it.
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Crossposting from the YouChew thread. This peculiar creature has been going on a drug-fueled rampage on tumblr and issuing all sorts of threads of violence for the past month or so. Pretty much a mass shooter who'll lose it any day from now. He claims to be from the Bega Valley Shire area of Australia. @Vott or somebody else might be interested in documenting the stinkditch before he actually hurts somebody IRL.
Double-posting, because it would seem the curse of YouChew death cultism has struck again, this time with one of Radock's fuckbuddies, IAmOutOfIdeas. Besides being one of the more consistently toxic spawns in the 'YTP community,' IAOOI used to have a Chewiki page that was filled most with comments on suicidal ideation (that was about a decade ago or so), so I suppose it's rather unsurprising he tried taking his life.
https://www.tumblr.com/iamoutofideas
https://web.archive.org/web/20240124051335/https://www.tumblr.com/iamoutofideas
from around August 20th...
https://www.tumblr.com/iamoutofideas
https://web.archive.org/web/20240124051335/https://www.tumblr.com/iamoutofideas
from around August 20th...
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I’m sure it had nothing whatsoever to do with you taking testosterone and the resulting uterine and vaginal atrophy. Don’t worry lil’ pooner! When it all starts to rot they’ll have to give you that heckin’ hysterecterino!