Look - if I barged in to comment on the report of how a transman recently died* as a result of a hysterectomy, with a comment about all the straight married women I know who’ve had them are perfectly fine, and there must have been something different about this late transman THAT would be heternormative.

It may surprise you (it won’t, but it will definitely depress you) to realize that these kinds of bills are mostly enforced by belligerent men blocking women’s restrooms (when they aren’t barging into them outright) and harassing any woman who doesn’t present as sufficiently cisgender.

Yes, a particular cancer affecting XX individuals reproductive organs plus an inferior level of care with a dangerous surgical tool that is fatal = heternormative.

This article is about a doctor, a woman, who was given a procedure using an instrument that spread her undiagnosed uterine cancer throughout her abdominal cavity. Despite being a doctor, and having assurances from her gynecologist about the safety of this procedure, what she was told was based on false data from the…

No. A hysterectomy with a normal sized uterus can be laproscopically without the morcellator. Like the article mentioned, it is pulled out through the vagina. If the trans guy is fibroid free and (probably) young, banning this device has no effect at all.

“But what about the (trans)men ?”

I’m not giving the disclaimer any more - I know there are good doctors but this shit is too widespread to revert to the “a few bad apples” argument.

What about trans guys who do have undetected cancerous growths? Isn’t the knowledge about the dangers of this instrument safeguarding their health, too? I don’t think it’s fair for people to dislike a woman for wanting to spare other people her fate.

The majority of those transdudes (aka XX) probably did not have uterine fibroids, so the banning of the morcellator would be of little significance for their procedure.

The persons harmed by this device were all XX women.

“Morcellator” sounds daunting, but lacks the visceral bite of “scrape.” As in: “A fucklot of uterine procedures involve scraping something.”

Thank you for this article. I hadn’t known about morcellation, or about Amy, and I’m glad I know now.

I go this shit so much after I had my daughter at 16. I finally lost it and yelled at some busybody “well I didn’t have an abortion, shouldn’t you be happy about that!?” They didn’t take it well.

It’s so hypocritical that these people are pro life. It’s like “don’t get an abortion, but if you do keep your baby, we will Shame you!” So stupid.  

To me I feel like women can’t win either way, and this proves that anti-choicers really just want to shame women for having sex.

I was raised very religious and it takes a long time to get over that kind of brainwashing. I don’t love the fact that she’s anti-choice… But maybe these events will make her realize the hypocrisy of pro-lifers. Once she has that kid… Ain’t none of them supporting her.

Gee, I wonder if the dude who she had sex with was banned as well?

if this was a real issue.. we wouldn’t of survived before civilization came about and just got killed off in the wild.. anyone who believes otherwise isn’t thinking rationally..

Pro tip my dude: we don’t want your comments about our bodies.