Once you start letting bad people define and box in femininity and womanhood and who is "allowed" to be a woman do you think they're ever going to stop?
In light of the Labour manifesto: Trans rights _are_ women's rights.
I don't mean that in a "Trans Rights Are Human Rights" way, I mean that anti-trans policies are inevitably harmful to all women (as women), and, conversely, that trans-positive norms are a proximal boon to women.
Or any people, really. Let people transition. Let people be what they want to be. Let people live the lives that make them happy and harm no one. For fuck's sake it's their own bodies. Subsidize that shit and let people transition as much as they like. Go full kemmer imo
It's just like trying to gatekeep abortion. Dislike one particular type of abortion? It doesn't matter. Being all in on bodily autonomy protects us all from these creepos and whatever new exciting thing they will use against us all.
This might well be the least controversial take in the history of the internet. I don't mean that as any kind of criticism, it's just so self-evident that the fact that it needs to be said at all is entirely absurd.
I was thinking that "as common as needed" could actually be *less common* if these shits actually put literally anything into supporting parents and kids. Anyone should be able to get an abortion, full fucking stop, but no one should feel they *have* to have one because they don't have the resources
EXACTLY. If we both helped prevent unwanted pregnancy and supported people who can't "afford" kids for emotional/physical/financial reasons, there would be fewer abortions.
I have been screaming to the hills about "safe, legal, and rare" for decades. I *hate* that framing.
Anything that implies abortion is anything other than a safe, effective, and GOOD medical procedure that SAVES LIVES is just bullshit.
Yup. If a pregnant person and their doc agree to perform an abortion and it's safe, I'm cool with it. (I also firmly believe 95% of those abortions will happen in the first trimester if they are free and easy but that's a different thing) It's not my life, it's not my decision.
I love the use of “on-demand” … like how else should it be? You need care, you get care on demand. It’s not like we can schedule these things months in advance.
One of the shittiest things about abortion discourse in the US is this idea that b/c we CAN reduce unwanted pregnancies, it's easy and thus getting abortion is lazy/cheating and the on-demand framing is part of that, and it gets unwary people very easily.
Of course abortion is going to be on-demand! Even if it is the most tragic, unexpected abortion, you can't plan it! But the implication is that if lazy sluts were careful and planned, they'd never need the on-demand abortion.
And this is exactly the framing that attracts swing white women until Dobbs revealed that naw, anti-choice leaders just hate bodily autonomy for (people they view as) women. And "the gays" of course.
This. Whatever next: - 'We can schedule you an x-ray and a leg cast for July 14th - yes, I know you haven't broken your leg but we're not going to, like, provide care ON DEMAND! That would be madness! Also, would you like some chemotherapy next week? We've got a slot free and a quota to meet.'
