Hands Down One Of The Best Books I Have Ever Read!

Hands down one of the best books I have ever read!

really think u should all read invisible women like we should consider this a foundational feminist text on the level of de beauvoir and dworkin

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"This is a nightmare": Female Inmate Speaks Out Against Trans-Identifying Male Transfers - Reduxx

An inmate at New Jersey’s Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women (EMCFW) is speaking out against the transfer of trans-identifying male

please read this article, it is so cruel that these women are being forced to go through this. this is state-sanctioned torture

“We feel like we are part of some sick joke. This is a nightmare that we can’t wake up from,” she added. “The women here are traumatized over and over again and it seems as if no one cares about our needs. We feel like second-class citizens with no rights.”

Not to mention that there are some incredibly deserving women who for one reason or another cannot use their own uterus to get pregnant. It's known as Absolute Uterine Factor Infertility and Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome and cervical cancer early on in adulthood are two of the leading reasons it may occur. And a few important points that people don't seem to understand:

Every successful uterus transplant thus far has involved the recipient having their own ovaries. You need ovaries in order to menstruate or get pregnant. Trans women do not have ovaries.

Almost all, if not all, of the successful births following transplant, were using uteri from women who had previously had a child. Which just makes sense. If you are going to do a complicated surgery to provide someone with a uterus that they can use to get pregnant, better to pick a uterus that has a good track record. So the idea that you can just "donate your uterus" to anyone, including trans women, because you "don't want children" is not really a thing.

We JUST performed the first successful transplantation followed by childbirth in 2014. That's not even ten years ago. This field has so much more to learn in the next few decades.

Uterus transplantation's primary focus will be helping infertile women, because our bodies already have all the rest of the gear you need to have a child. An example of this would be how the pregnancy hormone lactin prepares a female's body to begin lactation when the infant is born, producing a very specific pre-milk called colostrum. Among this substance's many benefits are boosting a neonate's immune system and helping to fight infection. (My mom, who works in a NICU, calls this substance "liquid gold" because it makes such a big difference if an infant can be provided with it). This is something that biological males, even with a uterus transplant, would not be able to produce. Everything from where are bladders are located to how our pituitary glands work are different in biological women than in biological men, and affected greatly in terms of fertility and pregnancy.

While having children is certainly a choice, there is only one sex who is able to get pregnant, because we have fucking amazing bodies that know how to build human beings. I get that men are jealous of that ability, but they can get tf over it because they will never be able to do what we can do.

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"Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us." - Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood (1976)

Okay, I 100% hear you on overdiagnosis, the lack of primary prevention/environmental changes as a first line, and the overall lack of care related to psychiatrists prescribing medications without a lot of follow-up conversation to really discuss treatment. But please understand that a lot of these problems are just effects of the way medical practice in America was developed and the shitty American Healthcare System we have today, rather than the personal choices of psychiatrists. For example, most doctors (not just psychiatrists) work for a Healthcare system that tells them they need to meet a certain quota of patients every day. This is how we get the 30 to 60 minutes per patient model. I thoroughly believe that a whole lot of mental health issues would be much better treated if the doctors truly were able to stay with their patients as long as they needed to, but corporate Healthcare had other problems. And the extreme shortage of psychiatrists is not helping that problem. Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners are among some of the highest paid Nurse Practitioners simply because the demand is high and the supply is low.

If you want there to be more community resources, less overdiagnosing, more continuity of care and so on and so forth, tell the corporate Healthcare companies.

And to the person who wants to hear just one nice thing about psychiatry: the child psychiatrist on my unit spends about 10 hours a day, at least 5 days a week, working with his patients. Every single nurse on my unit fights to uphold the human dignity of the patients on our unit, and to teach these kids and teenagers how to identify cognitive distortions, advocate for themselves, and in a lot of cases, find reasons to go on living. Good psychiatry involves indivual therapy, family therapy, good coping skills, learning effective communication, and understanding how your own thoughts can work for or against you. Good psychiatry is the kind that refuses to label a kid as having a Personality Disorder because kids are resilient af and who knows what kind of mind they might have in ten years. Good psychiatry is the kind that identifies serious cognitive or developmental delays but then uses that information to provide resources and protection for a kid who is bound to be more vulnerable than their peers. Good psychiatry is about helping a person understand themselves so that they can take better care of themselves, rather than providing nothing more than a label and bottle of pills.

The American Healthcare System that thrives on profits cannot support good psychiatry.

Listen. I don't want to be anti-psychiatry. I would love to believe that psychiatry is helping people and that psychiatry is a good thing. I would even love to be "psych-critical" and believe that psychiatry is a fundamentally good thing that has serious flaws, but it can be helpful if it is practiced in an ethical way. But the more I learn about psychiatry the more I think all psychiatrists should be loaded onto a Tesla rocket and shot directly into the sun.

What really gets me is that they won't call her a mother, but then they go and refer to her female child as "daughter". Damn hypocrites.

I have not read the whole article yet, and I'm not defending the hospital in any way, shape, or form, but I do wonder if the whole "specimen" comment had to do with age of viability. The age of viability is generally considered to be around 22 weeks and has stayed right around there for the past two decades. My sister was born in 2003 at 22 weeks 4 days gestation. Today, an Alabama boy holds the record for the most premature baby to survive. Curtis Means was born 132 days premature on July 5, 2020 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham when the mother was 21 weeks and one day pregnant. There are plenty of other stories out there about women who had a stillborn child or a child who died soon after delivery at 18 to 19 weeks gestation, and the hospital refused to give them a birth or death certificate because, according to the CDC, they had only suffered a miscarriage, or their baby was of "previable age".

I don't think this is an ethical or healthy practice, because it dehumanizes infants and mothers alike, but it should be known that it is not a one-off situation.

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