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Post-‘Dobbs,’ Abortion and Trans Rights Converge in the Fight for Bodily Autonomy

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This story first appeared in Prism on June 24, 2025. Read the original article here.

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court overturned a nearly 50-year precedent of federal reproductive access. Three years later, the movement for reproductive freedom has expanded, with the inclusion of trans liberation, to become more intersectional than ever before.

Since the court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the work to provide abortion care has not stopped. It has only taken new roots. According to advocates and direct service providers, the fight for reproductive justice now stands shoulder to shoulder with trans liberation under the umbrella of bodily autonomy.

“There is no way that you can disassociate LGBTQ liberation from the fight for reproductive justice. You just can’t have one without the other,” said Regina Davis Moss, president of In Our Own Voice, a national partnership that works to secure sexual and reproductive justice for Black women, girls, and gender-expansive people. “Reproductive justice has always been about cross-movement collaboration.”

Davis Moss noted that this “cross-movement collaboration” has only become more visible since the fall of Roe.

This movement’s visibility has filled streets with demonstrations. In September 2024, more than 2,000 people attended the Gender Liberation March in Washington, D.C., coming together for medical access to abortion and gender-affirming care.

The shared dissent goes even deeper than a shared point of protest. The future of the fight for bodily autonomy has become........

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