Week 12: Sexual Politics

I still can't comprehend how we live in the year 2023 and yet there were more rights for my mother and grandmother then there are for me. As the months go on and new laws are passed there is a significant decrease in women's rights to their body and health care. Specifically abortion and birth control. They are making it harder and harder for women to get birth control, access abortion, and let trans women get the basic health care they need. A woman has a difficult time getting a hysterectomy or her tubes cut, but a man can get a vasectomy whenever he wants. It's actually becoming easier for trans individuals to get health care before women. Of course when the people who run women's health in government are all old men what do expect? It's hard to stay hopeful as a woman. Even now gay rights and equality are being threatened in some states. It's all absolutely heartbreaking and reaffirms my decision not to have kids. I would be even more terrified if I had a daughter. Some of the terms are even controversial. Why would we call it chest feeding when both women and MEN have breast and breast tissue. Why would you call someone a womb carrier or birthing person? That makes us seem like machinery and breeding animals. Why not just birthing mother or father? Leave it up to the individual on what they want to be called instead of making it the same for everyone? As women one of our biggest strengths and super powers is being able to create life, bring it into the world, and then feed that child with our bodies. That's something that as a woman shouldn't be taken from us. When it comes to childbirth a trans woman or man should rightfully have the option to choose what they want to be called and who they want to be, but women should not be forgotten in the process. Sexual biology should not be forgotten, but a new generation that is apparently "woke" wants to take it to the extremes. As women we are becoming third class citizens and it needs to end.