Three years ago this week, Roe v. Wade was overturned.
The state didn’t just come for abortion—it came for the heart of queer and trans liberation.
Because Roe didn’t fall in a vacuum. It fell in a country where gender-affirming care is being banned, where LGBTQ+ youth are being criminalized, where families are being surveilled and separated.
The same ideologies that ban abortion also ban books.
They impose borders.
They attack trans children.
That’s why reproductive justice has never been just about the right to an abortion. It’s about the right to self-determine your gender. To decide if, when, and how to parent. To migrate. To access healthcare without fear. To live free from violence and full of joy.
It is a queer framework. And it calls us to recognize that the fight for bodily autonomy is the fight for LGBTQ+ liberation.
At Women’s Foundation California, we are proud to fund this intersectional fight—not just in words, but in action.
We support organizations like El/La Para TransLatinas, where trans Latinx people in San Francisco build safety, power, and joy in the face of a state that was never built for them. El/La offers healing circles, legal support, healthcare advocacy, and radical love. They know what our movements know: trans people have always led us toward liberation.
And this year, as I mark two decades years since I had my first abortion, I’m reminded that this fight is deeply personal. It is not theoretical. It is not symbolic.
Abortion allowed me to imagine a different future. It gave me a chance to choose myself. And I’ve never stopped fighting for others to have that same chance—especially trans, queer, undocumented, and low-income people, who face impossible barriers to care.
In a world that says: you are too much, too queer, too poor, too undocumented, too unruly to be free—El/La says: you are sacred, you are worthy, you belong.
This Pride Month, we are not interested in rainbow logos.
We are interested in freedom.
The kind you fight for with your whole heart.
The kind that refuses to separate abortion from gender-affirming care, from housing, from migration, from liberation.
We are all feeling the weight of this moment. This is our fight.
Now pick up your weapon:
Make it glitter. Make it a grant. Make it a poem. Make it a riot.