When I was 21…I was told I was likely infertile and that pregnancy could and probably would kill me. I was denied a tubal ligation and/or hysterectomy because I “might meet a man who wants kids”.

It was a horrifying look at how deep misogyny runs in medicine - and how little women are trusted to know their own bodies and make decisions for their health.

I eventually had the hysterectomy- but only once it became an emergency because I was bleeding to death and they couldn’t stop it. The surgery was more traumatizing and dangerous because I wasn’t afforded the time to adequately prep.

I’m grateful to have survived - and sharing my story in the hopes it helps other women feel less alone. I hope it challenges doctors and healthcare workers to think differently about how they treat women and realize that not ALL of us can become mothers (and not all of us WANT to either).

At the end of the day - a man wouldn’t have had these issues if he wanted a vasectomy. He would have been trusted to know his body. He wouldn’t have been treated like an incubator and I sincerely doubt many men are asked whether they’ve considered that they could meet their “dream woman” and she might be angry about their sterility.

There’s no stigma about the childless cat man.

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/pregnancy-will-likely-kill-you-but

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THE TRANSING OF PITAMAKAN 'RUNNING EAGLE'

"As for the man who first identified Running Eagle, Will Roscoe, you can see how unbiased his research approach is from his latest book which...er..reveals how Jesus and the disciples were all part of a gay shamanic cult. It makes Dan Brown's books seem authoritative."

Malcolm Clark @TwisterFilm
https://twitter.com/TwisterFilm/status/1681340730290085893/photo/1

"It's a sad reflection of our culture that we allow a bullying lobby to rewrite Running Eagle's history and that of her innovative people using lame ideas concocted and popularised by two creepy white guys; Hay and Williams, one of whom was later jailed for paedophilia."

This substack is clearly not written by an Indigenous person and fails to take into account the fact that the Residential school system in tandem with the concept of Manifest Destiny in the United States taught many tribes to hate and fear homosexuality in line with Christian teaching. Prior to contact, homosexuality was accepted across North America, but homosexuals were equal tribal members. They were not mystical sacred beings with psychic powers. They were neither above or below anyone else in the tribe. Non-Natives on the left and the right miss one of the most fundamental precepts of Indigenous spiritual beliefs when discussing Indigenous attitudes towards those who are different - Everyone is EQUAL in the circle. No one is above. No one is below. No one is higher. No one is lower.

To this date, no one has ever been able to find any legitimate reference to "two spirit" people from legitimate hereditary Indigenous elders or from Native scholars who speak and understand their Native language and who have a solid, legitimate connection to a federally recognized tribe. Not one legitimate Indigenous leader will claim this myth. Meanwhile Native youth who have lost their ties to their communities are being brainwashed into thinking that this Settler invention to legitimize sex between adult males and children is part of their culture. This is spiritual rape.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Indigenous scholars and activists worked hard to expose the myth of the Berdache that white racist and homophobic anthropologists created. AIM held many protests at Universities around the US and Canada exposing the Berdache myth as pure Settler fiction. Many Indigenous activists and scholars spoke out about the Berdache myth, but the white anthropologists were always painted as the "authorities" on Indigenous culture, never the Indigenous elders who kept knowledge of their culture through storytelling in the oral tradition.

In the 1990s, William Roscoe, a white gay anthropologist, lifted a lot of the objectionable work of non-Native anthropologists regarding the Berdache and re-branded it as his "Two Spirit" nonsense. Harry Hay, controversial for his support of NAMBLA, joined forces with Roscoe in promoting the myth. They even dared to try to make the homosexual into a sacred being with magical powers so that white gay men with pedophilic urges could feel validated.

Gender Ideology started with racist colonial cultural mis-appropriation of Indigenous cultural and spiritual beliefs. No one in the radical feminist camp cried out until it branched out to mis-appropriate all of womanhood. The human right of the oppressed groups involved have never been taken into consideration when it comes to insane drive to accept, legitimize and validate all forms of male sexual depravity.

It's not surprising that Trans Rights Advocates are exploiting Running Eagle or Pitamakan, another strong Indigenous woman who cannot speak for herself. She is being labeled as "Two Spirit" for simply saying she would be "no man's slave." The Gender ideologists want to re-write history and define any woman who does not submit unconditionally to men as trans or "two spirit" or born in the wrong body. Running Eagle or Pitamakan is the next candidate to be being transed and exploited to further the sexual agenda of the white male settler. She is starting to be referred to as "the Blackfeet Joan of Arc" by outsiders. This is being done not to honour the strength and resilience of Indigenous women, but so that depraved men who are rightfully outcasts from their society for their sexual crimes against children can feel better about themselves.

The racist colonial historical revisionism must end. Indigenous people must be allowed to tell our own stories about how strong and powerful our women have always been without the misogynist settlers silencing our voices to proclaim that all our strong women never existed thereby erasing our strongest, most powerful women role models by claiming that if they were strong, they must really not have been women at all.

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