Discussion about this post

User's avatar
G. Cosper's avatar

It is simply outrageous that people with a womb are deemed Second or even Third Class citizens! Even now, as a post menopausal person, I am asked when my last mensus was by medical personnel. I now tell them "At seventy years old, it's no longer a question worth asking." I'm so sorry the author went through these debilitating trials and glad she survived and thrived!

Expand full comment
Curtis Clark's avatar

I’m glad you survived.

As you mentioned, the other end of the rage spectrum is forced sterilization—indigenous people and other people of color, and also institutionalized whites, at least in the US. It’s notable that forced castration of men (other than as a part of lynching) is very rare, regardless of their ethnicity or social status. Eugenics with a side of insanity.

Expand full comment
70 more comments...

No posts