Repeal the 8th is not just a ‘cis woman’ issue

[BWatchWatcher]

Says a post in my facebook feed.
But if ‘cis’ women are the only beings who can get pregnant, then surely it is?

Am I supposed to be sympathetic to transwomen who can’t have abortions?

Don't forget mr garrison...

South Park, S9e1. If I like I might get deleted for transphobia though... 😬

*link, not like

Probably means trans men who identify as gay, ie are attracted to male-bodied people and have what anyone else would call heterosexual sex with them.

They'll mean Transmen.

I saw quite a bit of 'pregnant people' narrative throughout the campaign. I ignored it because my blood pressure is less important than getting Yes past the line. It does grate though!

So if it’s not just a ‘cis woman’ issue, does that mean they understand that it is an issue which affects people with wombs regardless of how they do or don’t ‘identify’ with gender? Well that’s my TERFy mind blown! I thought it was just the women with a deep affinity for lipstick and heels who needed to travel.

If only we had a word to describe the reproductive class of people with wombs, so we could point out whose issue Repeal the 8th is...

Ahhh but 53rd what you don't realise is that it is your inadequate knowledge of biology that leads you to believe that womb-havers are all female/women. Men have wombs too don't cha know.

Transwomen can get periods too dontcha know?
There really is no band wagon they won't get on is there?

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My head is hurting.
Surely transmen were cis women once?

Well, technically no one was ever a cis woman...

No one is cis

Everyone gets to vote though dont the they?

no one is cis

Yyyyyyyy

Abortion isn't a "cis women" issue because there's no such thing as "cis". It's a female humans' bodily sovereignty issue, affecting women (female adults) and girls (female children). Some female humans wish to be considered men or boys, but they remain, as far as a class analysis based on reproductive capacity is concerned, women or girls.

I watched a video last week about a transwoman who referred to the surgical bleeding from her newly constructed vagina, as menstruation. So to her mind, she has a womb.

Hang on a minute. I'm as gender critical as the next woman, but couldn't this be a way of saying "It's not a cis woman issue, it's a whole society issue because women's rights are important to society as a whole, not just women"?

You mean controlling women's bodies and their autonomy over reproduction is important to society (men) as a whole.

Dream on, @Eolian!

I guess so, Gasp0de. Like the username btw. #WearTheLilac

Bd67th is spot on.

what? what?
how dare they, how fucking dare they?
this is a real thing, a real thing that affects women's lives and kills us
just fuck off with this juvenile nonsense and come back to us in 15 years when you have grown up a little

Well repeal the 8th affects men too, they're not wrong. There have been many men who had to travel over with women to support them during abortions. Then you've got men like Savita Halappanavars husband, or the husband of that poor pregnant woman who was kept on life support when brain dead. It impacts women much much more of course .