Should doctors still be compelled to force """"trans kids"""" to undergo hormone therapy though?
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As happens frequently while reading anything John posts, especially about Mississippi, my bullshit detector went off again, so I decided to do some research.
According to
this very exhaustively researched website on eugenics and forced sterilizations in the US, I could not find any information about Mississippi courts dropping charges if a woman got a hysterectomy. I couldn't find anything to back up this claim when searching elsewhere, though on this website I did find an interesting factoid: at one of the Mississippi hospitals that performed forced sterilizations, “although Black patients […] received significantly worse treatment than […] White patients and suffered appalling death rates, no evidence exists of a different sterilization rate for the two groups."
Another fun fact: the state with the highest rate of eugenics-related sterilizations? That progressive beacon itself, California, with over 20,000 of them, a third of all eugenics-related forced sterilizations in the US. By comparison, the backwater hick state of Mississippi performed less than 700.
As to other forced sterilizations, the term "Mississippi appendectomy" apparently refers to a woman being unknowingly sterilized when going in for another medical procedure, and in the case
Relf v. Weinberger, it was found that the government was sterilizing upwards of 100k poor people per year. Some were coerced into accepting a sterilization to continue receiving welfare benefits, which is similar to what John was saying up there, but not the same. After the case, doctors were required to obtain informed consent before performing a sterilization. Surprisingly enough, there are a lot of people today who
choose to undergo sterilization instead of other birth control methods.
So in summation, Mississippi didn't just sterilize black people, they (and practically every other state) sterilized anyone deemed unfit to reproduce, mostly the mentally retarded. I found nothing about John's claim about getting out of jail time by sterilizing yourself, but plenty of other info on coerced sterilizations.
The funniest part of all this is that John chose to sterilize himself.
Ninja'd by
@AnOminous but hey whatever
