Mastodawn

Esther-Lester was our favorite performer at the Port Royal Fair in the 1970s. Back then, individuals born with variations in sex characteristics—then commonly referred to as hermaphrodites—faced absolute medical secrecy, forced corrective surgeries to conform to a strict gender binary, and profound social isolation. #hermaphrodite #estherlester #sexcharacteristics #variationsinsexcharacteristics #isolation #medicalsecrecy #forcedsurgery #forcedsurgeries #civilrights #transrights #equalrights

MissConstrue Apr 30

Y’all in the 1980s I started working towards my PhD in bioethics because I was afraid of what the backlash to roe v wade was going to bring, now that PsuedoChristians were driving Republican policies.

I wrote about post mortem prenatal ventilation, and how it was a slippery slope that, if allowed, would remove all autonomy from any pregnant person.

And we have seen that play out over and over with dead women, but now we’re seeing it with live women. These women had good reasons to not want surgery, the hospital didn’t even offer her an advocate, just pushed her, MUTED, while in labor, into a hearing where a bunch of men got to decide how she was going to give birth.

Y’all, it may be time for a Lysistrata strike. No rights, no beast with two backs. No more shall we point our slippers toward the sky for men who are not our allies. Want babies? Get out of my uterus.

https://www.propublica.org/article/florida-court-hearing-c-section

#women #rights #reproduction #birth #forcedsurgery #gop

She Was in Labor at a Florida Hospital. Then She Was in Zoom Court for Refusing a C-Section.

A virtual court hearing from a pregnant mother’s hospital bed shows what forced medical treatment can look like.

ProPublica