The objectives of this article are two-fold. First, it is a personal reflection on the need for reproductive health-care spaces and services where sex and gender binaries are challenged and room for non-binary people is made. Second, it is a critical commentary on why and how cis- and trans-normative understandings of sex and gender form the foundation of reproductive health care as it is currently delivered. Taken together, this article is a call to action for nurses to be creative in challenging sex and gender binaries in their provision of reproductive health care.
GroszE. (1994). Volatile bodies: Toward a corporeal feminism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
3.
James-AbraS., TarasoffL. A., GreenD., EpsteinR., AndersonS., MarvelS., … RossL. E. (2015). Trans people's experiences with assisted reproduction services: A qualitative study. Human Reproduction, 30(6), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/dev087.
4.
JohnsonA. (2016). Transnormativity: A new concept and its validation through documentary film about transgender men. Sociological Inquiry, 86(4), 465–491. https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12127.
5.
SurkanK. J. (2013, May). FTM in the fertility clinic: Troubling the gendered boundaries of reproduction. Paper presented at Probing Boundaries of Reproduction: Origins, Bodies, Transitions, Futures, 1st Global Conference, Prague, Czech Republic.
6.
VerlindenJ. (2012). Transgender bodies and male pregnancy: The ethics of radical self -refashioning. In HampfM. M. & Snyder-KorberM. (Eds.), Machines: Bodies, genders and technologies (pp. 107–136). Heidelberg, Germany: Universitätsverlag Winter.
7.
von DoussaH., PowerJ., & RiggsD. (2015). Imagining parenthood: The possibilities and experiences of parenthood among transgender people. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 17(9), 1119–1131. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2015.1042919.
