Hey, fam, it's Amara.

Welcome to the TransSash podcast, a show where we tell trans stories to save trans lives.

As a pivotal Supreme Court decision looms in the United States, we've been hearing a lot

about access to

abortion and other reproductive health services. Far too often, trans people are left completely

out of the conversation. But transgender people need access to reproductive health care too,

everything from contraception and family planning to STI testing and treatment to abortion,

but the barriers to access can be high.

And trans people have to deal with all of those barriers

in addition to encountering providers who aren't trans competent

and simply don't know how to interact with trans people accessing these services.

That's why we at Translash launched the TransBodies Trans Choices

short film and narrative series through TransBodies, trans choices during this transgender month

of visibility, trans people are using their voices to reveal the personal stakes for our community

and to center us in this discussion about body

autonomy. So that's the conversation we're having this week. First, we talk to writer and

educator Jack Coimmy Gutierrez, who tells their story in a transbodies transchoices film.

You know, my dysphoria usually comes from having a womb and being aware of said womb.

So imagine nine months of just being hyper-aware of something that makes you feel violently ill.

I did not need that.

I was like, I think I'm good.

Then we talked to Adaku, Utah, the organizing director for the National Network of Abortion Funds.

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