Our pregnant people, our infants, our communities deserve to thrive — not just survive.

If you can, support mutual aid groups in your community.

When systems fail us, we take care of each other.
That’s how we survive.
That’s how we build a liberated future.

Despite what the Administration would have you believe, SNAP and WIC are not on the line because of trans people or immigrants. They’re on the line because the government would rather play politics than take care of us.

Lawmakers using food assistance as a bargaining chip and letting thousands of families pay the price is unfathomably cruel. This is not leadership rooted in care or community.

This isn’t an abstract policy debate — it’s systemic political violence with real consequences for public health.

When a pregnant person can’t access nutritious food, formula, or support, outcomes worsen across the board. We see harm that could and should be prevented.

Reproductive justice is also the right to live in a body unconstrained by hunger, neglect, or scarcity.

People need stability to be healthy.
They need food. These things are absolutely necessary for raising families.

I’m not interested in qualifying anyone’s “worthiness” for support based on employment, sobriety, age, or ability.

And I’m not interested in policing how people use their benefits.

Everyone deserves food, stability, and care.

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Excellent point. It’s more inclusive and it is also more accurate. All the more reason to constantly examine the language we use.

My solidarity with trans people isn’t at odds with Reproductive Justice — it’s integral to it.

I will keep using inclusive language. I will keep including trans people in my work.

Our liberation is bound together.
Are you coming along?

The same forces attacking abortion access are attacking gender-affirming care — both rooted in control.

We can’t stop at abortion access. We have to dig injustice out at the root, not just when it touches our own gardens.

Abortion is health care — but it’s also about bodily autonomy, self-determination, and the right to shape our own futures.

Trans people are in a parallel, interconnected fight.

Pregnant women are people. “Pregnant people” doesn’t erase cis women’s experiences with pregnancy — it expands the frame.

It helps make all reproductive health safer and more accessible for everyone.

Many people still think of this work as “women’s rights.” They worry that saying “pregnant people” dilutes the fight for abortion access.

If that’s where you’re coming from, I hear you. And I offer this:

Hyde and Dornan are meant to break us. But our communities know how to survive—and how to keep fighting. We endure, we resist, we insist on justice.

Read more:

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In my piece for @thenation.com , I wrote about what this means for providers and communities: how federal control shows up in exam rooms, on our streets, and in daily life.

This is Hyde in action. It’s not theoretical — it’s lived reality. Every day, patients in DC are told their health, their choices, and their futures are subject to federal politics.

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