@ cis women: y’all know trans women are de facto forcibly sterilized, right? Like, if we don’t have the money and access required to freeze our genetic material (aka sperm), we can’t have biological offspring after starting hrt. And since almost everywhere requires medical transition as necessary to get legal recognition of our womanhood, this amounts to forced sterilization for the majority of trans women. So that’s what I mean when I say I resent being talked down to by “cis allies” on the subject of reproductive rights.
In many places throughout the world, permanent surgical sterilization via removal of the gonads is also a required step in order to get one’s gender legally changed. Cis gatekeepers really want to make sure trans people (and trans women especially) do not reproduce.
And what’s worse, we are supposed to be happy about it, and being unhappy with this arrangement can be taken as a sign that we aren’t a “real trans” and thus the medical care we need to transition will be withheld from us in many places. Its so fucked.
This terrible thing effects all trans people but hits trans people who need to freeze eggs particularily hard. Not only is freezing eggs far more expensive with a far lower success ratio (which means needing to spend even more money on freezing more eggs to be sure), it also requires a period during which the trans person needs to delay transition and take extra hormones of the type they do not want in their body. And in addition to being psychologically tough, that period makes it much harder to hide your choice from the doctor providing transition related care. As described above, a lot of trans people have to hide their desire to have children because they will not be seen as ‘really trans’ if they don’t cheerfully accept sterilization.
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