"surely women who claim to be men, and are taking testosterone don't know the potential harm it may do to a foetus."
It is a well known risk and they would be advised against it by health care organisations.
The most recent abomination is "women who call themselves men" deliberately taking testosterone throughout pregnancy precisely for its mutagenic effects on the foetus.
They hope to give birth to babies who have disorders of sexual development, focussing on the fetishisation of "intersex" people, the surface symptomatology of malformed genitalia and the notion that if there are more intersex people it will validate "trans identities".
"Defending the Indefensible or It’s Not Us Who Are Acting Like Nazis
Extract:
"The other day, I read a study called, “Medical uncertainty and reproduction of the “normal”: Decision-making around testosterone therapy in transgender pregnancy”. The quotation marks around “normal” turned out to be significant. Because in the context of queer theory, normal really is a dirty word. To queer is to twist, to break or bend out of shape. Which is fine in a philosophy class, but when translated to real world actions and actual people tends to create a blood on the floor situation, at least metaphorically.
And when dealing with the mental health of pregnant women, queering their fetuses by removing normality removes the choice of those future adults to create their own destinies due to actions that can irreparably damage them."
"There is a reason that treatment approaches during pregnancy are offspring-focused. Because fetal development is the most vulnerable time in a mammalian lifespan, and this is the period when the optimization of any health we are going to have is set.
Thalidomide given to pregnant women caused disastrous birth defects in children, but was very effective in treating morning sickness. It was offspring-focused to stop prescribing an efficacious treatment for a condition that can be truly debilitating for women, but it was the only moral choice."
"the authors clearly feel that the precautionary labor of pregnancy should not apply to this pregnant population, thereby prioritizing their feelings and beliefs over the actual health of their babies. And note that they also seem to be saying that if drowning fetuses in abnormally high levels of testosterone creates more queer people, this is a societal good."
Full article:
https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/defending-the-indefensible-or-its
“Medical uncertainty and reproduction of the “normal”: Decision-making around testosterone therapy in transgender pregnancy”.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321523000811