When I was four years old, a doctor advised my parents that I should undergo a “routine” hysterectomy. It was recommended, the doctor said, to prevent the future inconvenience of menstruation. My parents, thankfully, were horrified and high-tailed it out of there, taking me and my four year old uterus with them.
Stella Young, “The involuntary sterilisation of children with disabilities should be challenged”
All forced sterilization - of children, adults, people with disabilities, people in prison, Native women, Mexican American women, black women and men, Puerto Rican women, trans* people, Deaf people, Latinas in California, women who are poor and/or on welfare, people at the intersections of these categories - should be ended.
Why is that so controversial?
(via disabilityhistory)