By Lara Bertolini Photo: Claudia Conteris These days I've been following the debate on the decriminalization of abortion, and I'm very surprised that there's no mention of dissident pregnant people. The presentations made by the Women's Movement approach it from a binary feminist perspective, because they don't include lesbians, pregnant people, or trans men.

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I believe it is time that, if they are discussing from different fields, medical, legal, social, philosophical sciences and everything that comes into play in thinking to understand the arguments regarding legal, safe and free abortion, it is only within the binary system. Bodies also have abortions. Why don't they include the gender identities that make up society?

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The bodies of pregnant people who identify as gender non-binary must be included within the framework of the law guaranteeing legal, safe, and free abortion. By making their experiences visible within the protocol of this law, the development of thought based on diversity and universal inclusion is broadened. If we base the law on a binary system, we are failing to respect the gender identity of non-binary bodies, whose needs must be addressed in all treatments. These treatments, in turn, help shape identity.

 

The law for legal, safe, and free abortion must also be addressed from the perspective of gender non-conforming individuals. Non-binary, gender-nonconforming bodies, not framed within heterosexuality, must have a separate paragraph in the text of the law. Otherwise, we are disregarding the Gender Identity Law. If we adhere to the law from a biological perspective and fail to consider the gestation process of a trans body, we are excluding them from the legal, safe, and free abortion law, thus failing to guarantee their inclusion within the legal framework. Furthermore, we are reinforcing the binary system, which has proven its inadequacy and is incompatible with the new social context that is no longer based on heteronormativity.

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So far, none of the presentations I've heard have addressed gender non-conforming bodies, and that's worrying. Because if a trans boy wants an abortion, he won't be included, neither within the legal framework nor, even less so, considering his own body. Let's not make the mistake of creating a law that doesn't address the needs of non-heteronormative identities, because there's a risk of repeating the same error as with the Law Against Gender Violence, which only addresses women in its articles and doesn't include gender identities with their specificities, the means of violence, and specific actions against our identity. Otherwise, we'll continue to reinforce paradigms based on established and fixed binary theories. These theories refuse to broaden their reasoning and understanding of the social constitutive process that is currently undergoing a critical transitional moment, affecting all social strata