Also its apparently infertility awareness week so remember that without free, on demand access to fertility treatment trans people need to choose between transition and fertility. In a world where adoption is harder for anyone with unconventional family setups, or for economically disadvantaged people like a lot of us are, that’s really limiting to the sort of families we’ll ever get to have.
That makes it sound so passive and benign and not like what it actually is: a choice between staying in the closet and being sterilized.
Even when sterilization is not legally mandated we should realize that lack of access to necessary medical treatment to preserve fertility is deliberately designed to punish and control.
And if you don’t recognize the lack of access to fertility treatments for trans people as oppressive, consider the fact that most health insurance plans cover the drug viagra (more than cover birth control), and most of the people taking it are old cis white men, meaning there is already precedent for healthcare insurers providing easy access to fertility-preserving treatments – but only for a specific (read: privileged) subsection of the population.
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