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1/ Tell you what, if only ONE man carries a baby, for 9 months with out drinking, smoking or eating shellfish, deals with the hormones, the crying the nosebleeds, the migraines, the bad back, the sciatica, the piles, swollen legs and ankles, before embarking on 36hrs...
2/ of excruciating pain akin to breaking 10 bones simultaneously, whilst your privates tear open and your bum falls out, or an epidural, or having a c-section, where your insides are removed, and 6oure scared for life, before getting PND, engorged breasts, mastitis, cracked...
3/ nipples, blocked milk ducts, persistent incontinence, vaginally and anal prolapse, PND or PN psychosis, exhaustion and Wright gain... they can claim breasts are "chests" and transwomen are women.
Until that day happens, no
Womanhood is ours and all the words that go with it
Until that day happens, no
Womanhood is ours and all the words that go with it
4/ you can dress as you like, wear what you like, have any operation you like. I will support your right to equality and freedom to be and love and dress whom you like.
However, I will not relinquish my lived experience of womanhood or motherhood to accommodate it.
However, I will not relinquish my lived experience of womanhood or motherhood to accommodate it.
Excuse the typos, I was typing furiously.
6/ I forget to mention shitting yourself in room full of strangers and, what feels Iike, everyone in the hospital sticking their hand inside your tuppence and moving your boobs in to another position.
