Queer People Navigating Experiences with Health CareProviders and Contraception
2018
Contemporary views of
contraception have intrinsically linked birth control to
heterosexual sex and pregnancy prevention. As such, contraception
is culturally understood to be exclusively for heterosexual women.
Despite this, the little work that has been done on queer people1
and contraception use demonstrates they are also accessing birth
control (Chrisler, Gorman, Manion, Murgo, Adams-Clark, Newton and
McGrath 2015). This schism between the cultural understanding of
contraception as a manifestation of heterosexual womanhood and the
everyday use of contraception by both queer and heterosexual people
takes root in the medical system. Based in heteronormative
ideologies, the medical system fails to take into account the needs
of queer people (Lim, Brown and Kim 2014). Given both the
incongruity in the cultural perception of contraception, as well as
heterosexism in the healthcare system, I have chosen to study the
intricate relationship between queer women and contraception
obtainment. Using face-to-face interviews with sixteen
self-identified queer people, this study investigates how queer
people obtain contraception, as well as why they obtain
contraception. This Study finds that queer people have a myriad of
different reasons for obtaining contraception, including pregnancy
prevention and relief of
dysphoria.
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