A Texas pro-abortion organization, Fund Texas Women, has announced that it is changing its name to Fund Texas Choice. This is because the reference to “women” excludes trans-sexual individuals who now identify as “men” but who still have female reproductive organs and who may thus get pregnant and “need” an abortion. This is from the announcement:
In order for our organization to provide quality abortion services, we have to make sure that everyone who needs help traveling for their abortion is able to get it. But with a name like Fund Texas Women, we were publicly excluding trans* people who needed to get an abortion but were not women.
From Jenny Kutner, Texas abortion advocates: “We refuse to deny the existence and humanity of trans people” – Salon.com, who goes on to also question the word “choice” in the pro-choice movement, since many women (and men) do not have a choice in the matter:
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