*reading article about a cissexist teen pregnancy campaign that featured photomanips of teen boys being pregnant, which apparently originally referred to those images as “disturbing”*
*come across a comment that the makers of that campaign “did vet the images with professionals working specifically on transgender issues, who said they did not find the ads offensive”*
…out of curiosity, do you think that those professionals were, y’know. Actually trans people? Because the way they worded that sounds to me like “well, cis allies in positions of power at supposedly-inclusive queer orgs said it was okay, and they should know, right?”







![theresallwaystomorrow:
I think my tweet speak the truth
[feminist killjoy mode] Except for the cissexist assumptions underlying that, though. There are men who need to worry about getting pregnant; there are women who need to worry about impregnating their partners; there are people of non-binary gender who have these concerns, too. If you assume, as a gay man, that “[your] orientation takes care of that”, you’re saying that you’re a cis man who will only ever partner with other cis men. Which is either ignorance of the existence of trans people, or is bigotry of the “they can exist but ew I wouldn’t date one” variety.
Not to mention, knowledge is a good thing to have regardless of if you’re likely to need it, especially when you’re talking basic human biology. Unless you’re also saying that you’re a cis man who will never ever be friends with or related to AFAB people for whom birth control and menstruation and related reproductive health is part of their lives, and thus probably tangentially relevant to you if you care about their lives. [/feminist killjoy mode]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me4a11LUCA1qipb61o1_1280.jpg)
