Female TERFs have actually literally repeatedly said to me that "all girls" or "most girls" experience puberty as terrifying and distressing and dysphoric but "It's something you must go through" as a rite of passage into womanhood Like holy shithttps://twitter.com/GoingMedieval/status/1378655315407802370 …
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I'm not even a woman and I didn't find puberty "terrifying"
(just adult men's reactions to it lbh). I think maybe they should look into, idk, learning basic anatomy? Teaching kids to be prepared? Like cis girls shouldn't be TERRIFIED of something like that.5 replies 0 retweets 45 likes -
Replying to @techevangelista @arthur_affect
(Since people are seeing this I should probably add that this doesn't include the visceral body horror that is pregnancy, since I've probs tweeted about that. That definitely has always scared me, but more because I'm super grossed out by parasites than like "omg puberty")
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Replying to @techevangelista @arthur_affect
I feel like pregnancy would be less terrifying generally to many if A: we knew more about it than whatever we've cobbled together since acknowledging vaginas aren't broken penises or whatever, and B: medical professionals didn't accept horrifying outcomes as normal and expected.
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I thought pregnancy was cool, like a big science experiment, but that's because everyone already told me what was coming! If the only information I had was depictions of pregnancy and monthly visit with an overworked OB, I would have been dead in the water.
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Maternal mortality seems to be abnormally high in the US compared to other nations & that more than likely ties in to our lack of universal health care.
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And institutional racism (the stats are skewed by how much higher it is for Black women), and a general institutional bias in obstetrics toward the "welfare of the child" over the "welfare of the mother"
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Yep. But ran out of room to explain that. It also dovetails into the poverty issue because lack of healthcare causes more poor people to die and that is majority black and brown populations.
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