It’s Not Just Women: How the Reproductive Health Movement Fails Trans People And How it Can be Better

Article originally appeared in The Contemporary Group on July 2nd, 2020.

The burden often falls to trans people to be their own advocates, not only in their individual interactions with physicians but in the broader discourse around abortion as well. Jack Qu’emi Gutiérrez, a nonbinary pro-choice advocate, approaches this issue through We Testify, an organization dedicated to normalizing and providing safe access to abortion by inviting people to share their stories. Jack uses gender-neutral pronouns and titles.