Cisgender women are usually the focus of conversations around abortion, though transgender and nonbinary people access reproductive health services, including abortion, every day.
Author: Sachiko Ragosta
Sachiko (pronouns: they/them) works at Ibis Reproductive Health as a research assistant on a number of qualitative and quantitative projects in both the United States and Central America. These projects include work in understanding the effects of restrictive abortion policies and stigma, assessing reproductive health barriers specific to trans and gender-expansive individuals, and the development of an app to assist in the provision of medication abortion care. Previous to their work at Ibis, Sachiko worked with youth in San Francisco, facilitating weekly queer support groups and giving workshops on harm reduction, positive sexuality, and anti-oppression and executed two independent research projects in South America on adolescent pregnancy. Sachiko holds a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Language and Literature and American Studies with an emphasis in Intersectionality and Health from the University of California Berkeley.