Hey TransSych family, it's me, Amara Jones. By the time you're hearing the sound of my voice this time,

you'll know that the Supreme Court has banned the federal right to an abortion ruling it to be

unconstitutional, meaning that in nearly half the state's abortion will become illegal, in some cases, effective immediately. Now, this, of course,

is a huge blow to our community, not only because trans people have abortions and need access

to reproductive services, but because, as we have made the case many times throughout everything that we do at

Translash, this conversation is not only about abortion, isn't even mostly about abortion.

It's actually about who gets to control our bodies and whether or not our bodies get caught up

within a white nationalist view of who belongs and who doesn't.

And a part of that vision, of course, is that trans people don't belong.

And therefore, we are included in those who don't have control of our bodies.

Moreover, many of the groups and organizations that we have profiled through our anti-trans hate machine series

are the exact same groups that are behind the push against abortion, now successful

push against abortion, and are also now beginning to turn those exact same tactics on

us and our community. So sadly, this is just the

beginning, and this is something that we know in our bones, which is why I know that so many of you

are in deep shock and sadness and maybe even rage. But it's times like this where we have to turn towards each other.

And in March, we had an entire effort at TransLash to focus on the intersections between body

autonomy and trans rights and reproductive justice and abortion rights called transbodies,

trans choices.

And in that, we spoke to two powerful voices in a podcast episode who can help

uplift these issues in terms of why they're important to us, why ultimately our vision for who we

are is going to succeed in the world, and why the world needs to pay attention to us when it

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