The Intersection of Conservative Attacks on Abortion and Trans Healthcare in Nebraska

Nebraska has banned abortion after 12 weeks of pregnancy and restricted gender-affirming care for anyone under 19, becoming the latest state to determine what its citizens will do with their sexed bodies. Abortion bans and transition care bans further the same goal: to transform the social category of gender into an enforceable legal status, linked to the sexed body at birth and to prescribe a narrow and claustrophobic view of what that gender status must mean. The anti-feminist movement is anti-trans, and the anti-trans panic is at its core anti-feminist.