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Velvette @velvette.bsky.social

In the same way the frequency of suicide and attempts is undercounted because some of us just die without being known or get denied our existence time and again the ramifications of such policies are way larger and very hard to quantify because many of the most severely affected are no longer here.

sep 11, 2025, 10:48 am • 10 1

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Velvette @velvette.bsky.social

As for compensation it is extremely disheartening to see it barely be even a topic in many countries and when it is the sum can be downright insulting compared the actual cost and the possible trauma and nothing for those who are gone.

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Velvette @velvette.bsky.social

And of course those countries barely want to discuss compensations or apologies because it's just for a bunch of trannies and also that they are still doing unethical and traumatising stuff namely with how they treat intersex kids or how they handled people of colour...

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Velvette @velvette.bsky.social

This thus ties perfectly well into gamete preservation and usage for trans people as many countries still have carve-outs to exclude trans people from accessing parenthood using their gametes if IVF is necessary which de facto becomes a new sterilisation constraint with extra steps.

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Velvette @velvette.bsky.social

You are stuck between going off of hormones for a time to try and make a baby the regular way (which may not be accessible to possible to handle for everybody or could be hard if on HRT for a long time) or just don't update your legal gender to be able to access IVF and

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Velvette @velvette.bsky.social

thus be recorded as the father if you are a trans woman (for example) because they do not want to have to register 2 mothers or 2 fathers on a birth certificate and oh look it's the same requirement in the end.

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Velvette @velvette.bsky.social

FYI this is exactly what happened in France for example when the text that planned to expand IVF access to everybody (mostly for lesbian couples and single women) started very generic and trans inclusive but was hammered specifically to exclude trans people who changed legal sex.

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Velvette @velvette.bsky.social

(just in case, I am aware that for trans men who want to get pregnant they need to stop T for the pregnancy but since they need to do it anyway I focused more on the stuff that people are forced to do for purely ideological reason)

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