Trans rights are reproductive rights

[Shana A]

Trans rights are reproductive rights
By Vanessa | Published: April 10, 2012

http://feministing.com/2012/04/10/trans-rights-are-reproductive-rights/#more-46812

This is a guest post by Katherine Cross for our partnership with the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Conference happening this weekend. Cross is President of the Hunter College Women's Rights Coalition and a Core Collective member of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project.

Count me among the legions of women who never thought our nation would be revisiting Griswold v. Connecticut in 2012. The spirit of the landmark 1965 case, establishing American citizens' right to use contraception legally, is now publicly under attack from the political right. In the midst of this has arisen one of the most amazing groundswells of women's activism in a generation. We have a lot to be proud of, even as the fight for reproductive justice grinds on. We are not ceding the field.

But as a woman of trans experience I also have to say that we need to summon more courage as feminists; we need to cultivate a far wider vision of "reproductive justice" than we have hitherto. Even as I raised my voice in defence of Sandra Fluke and in defence of women's right to choose, even as I opened my wallet to Planned Parenthood, I felt something was amiss. As we argued valiantly for the right to have health care plans cover contraception we glossed over the fact that transgender people still lack a meaningful right to choose in this country.

[Jamie D]

In Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), the Supreme Court ruled that a state's ban on the use of contraceptives violated the right to marital privacy.

I do not see where that case is "now publicly under attack from the political right."  The author seems to contend that the government, by not giving away free birth control, or not forcing some other agency to do so, is the denial of "reproductive justice."

She fails to make her case.