Bodily Autonomy Working Group

If you’re interested in getting involved, please fill out our interest form. 

We fight for queer, trans, and feminist liberation and against systems of patriarchal capitalist oppression that devalue women and LGBTQIA+ people, under the guidance of Reproductive Justice. We organize for the democratization of domestic and care work, political and social liberation for all genders, full bodily autonomy for all, and the end of state recognition of the gender binary. We fight for material improvements in the lives of working class people who are marginalized on the basis of gender and sexuality, including reproductive justice, access to gender-affirming and LGBTQIA+ competent healthcare, affordable housing, legal protections for all gender identities, especially transgender children and BIPOC trans comrades, sex work decriminalization, and an end to state interference and police harassment. In short, we demand nothing less than power over our own lives.

Reproductive justice and trans liberation are the front lines of the fight against the far right and their agenda of christofascism. As socialists, it is our duty to organize for total control of our own bodies as a fundamental right. Our demands for the community go beyond mere acceptance, pushing for nothing less than total liberation and full participation in society and democratization of the labor of social reproduction. It is imperative that we protect what progress we have obtained through decades of struggle and build upon the history of organizing for queer, trans, and women’s liberation. An injury to one is an injury to all and none of us are free until all of us are free!

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please email bawg@mdcdsa.org