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“I think that the longer that I sit and interrogate the entire binary, and the more that my body changes and is perceived as changed, the less afraid I am of the pendulum swinging because I can’t really control how the outside world perceives my gender.”
Read Arlowe's Interview Categories: Doula, Hormone Replacement Therapy, PCOS -
“To get that part of me removed felt like somebody had just taken a giant energetic cinder block out of my body, and I felt more open to connection and more open to experiencing and sharing my emotions.”
Read Chiron's Interview Categories: Hormone Replacement Therapy, Hysterectomy, Miscarriage, PCOS, PMDD -
“I was thinking about the similarities between being pregnant and early transition, of the thing where you’re in this new relationship with your body changing all the time in ways that are unexpected.”
Read Cyd's Interview Categories: Abortion, Atrophy, Family Planning, Hormone Replacement Therapy, PCOS, PrEP, UTI -
“I needed to be by myself to have my aha moment. I needed that solitude, I needed that resilience, I needed to be in that grit for a second to kind of understand to myself that “hey, you are more resilient than you think you are, but also this may be deeper than you think it is.”
Read Derek's Interview Categories: Abortion, Hysterectomy, Parenting, Pregnancy -
“In that moment, I felt I had a dilemma… do I come out, or do I not come out? So I didn’t come out, and I just sat there and listened to him talk to me about my cis male body that I didn’t have.”
Read Evan's Interview Categories: Atrophy, Sexual Health, UTI, Vaginal Cyst -
“Much like with transition, I really wish I could make decisions without all this external input, especially about my body. I don’t want other people’s opinions about my body, and I want to be able to make opinions without all the noise.”
Read Izi's Interview Categories: Birth Control, Blood Clotting, Fibromyalgia, IUD, PCOS, Tubal Ligation -
“I’ve been recognizing how modesty and purity culture still impact me now. There are aspects of the trans experience that are very much about other people’s perceptions, and wanting to control that, and purity culture didn’t control anybody’s actions, only the feminine person.”
Read Jo E.'s Interview Categories: Abortion, Salpingectomy -
“I’ve taken a lot of Plan B in my life. Before November of 2024, I was not on any form of birth control, and my main form of birth control was just to take Plan B every time I needed to. I probably would take 10 to 15 a year, which is really, really bad for you”
Read JR's Interview Categories: Birth Control, Emergency Contraception, IUD, PrEP, Sexual Health -
“Is my struggle to ask for support connected to my trauma around my family and friendships that have failed, or is it patriarchy telling me that I don’t deserve support?”
Read Kanoa's Interview Categories: Family Planning, IVF, Metoidioplasty, Miscarriage -
“In labor, there’s a time called transition. Right before the baby’s born, you move into transition, and it means they’re about to be born, and it’s the most painful part of labor. Then there’s also a transition in death where, if you know anybody in hospice care, they’ll say “oh, this person’s moving into the transition phase of death,”… and then obviously, gender transition.”
Read Kayne's Interview Categories: Abortion, Birth Control, IUI, Miscarriage, Parenting, Pregnancy -
“The wildest thing about a lot of these bills that say God didn’t make mistakes, you are who you are born to be. I could use the same language and mean something very different. My thing is, I don’t understand why people believe that God stops working when we’re born, that’s ridiculous. God works throughout our lives entirely.”
Read Keats's Interview Categories: Family Planning, IVF, Miscarriage, PCOS, Reciprocal IVF -
“I think what I’ve learned in this process and being so engraved in the reproductive world is that in the queer community, there’s more room to think outside the box of that couple dynamic.”
Read Rosin's Interview Categories: Blood Clotting, Doula, IUI, IVF, Miscarriage -
“I have never really thought about having a breeder kink because it’s not super feasible for me, biologically, but then it came up once, and the idea of role playing with the notion that I can get somebody else pregnant blew my mind.”
Read Sen's Interview Categories: Abortion, IUD -
“That was the moment, probably the first moment in my life when I’ve chosen myself over anybody else, and even when I say that in my body right now, I feel not just the grief, but the release.”
Read Sus's Interview Categories: Doula, Hysterectomy, Parenting, Pregnancy -
“I noticed that as I go through my transition, it’s less about being super manly and more about knowing that I don’t have to prove my gender. I get to play around with the expressions that make me feel more like me.”
Read Zad's Interview Categories: Birth Control, Family Planning, IUD, PrEP, Sexual Health
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