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Abortion is such an important topic to educate the public on especially in this day and age. Most people don’t know the steps to take to be able to get one or how an abortion works and all the other things that follows. I think that educating our peers with this information would be awesome especially people don’t have someone in their community to talk too about this topic.

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I'm not sure how relevant gender identity would be to the general population. In addition, I'm concerned how much Planned Parenthood can support us with this endeavor. We aren't an LGBTQ or gender identity expert or anything. We specialize in healthcare and abortions. It doesn't feel like we're using our resources to our advantage. When people hear our name, they're going to expect abortions and I think we don't have the credibility with gender identity and that area to properly make an impact, as opposed to abortion,

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A project on abortion is more expansive than simply legalizing it. The focus is more on the stigma, youth rights, and educating our peers on what actually happens when you get an abortion, because many people aren't fully informed on the process. Although we might not be able to change the law, we can certainly change some minds and present new perspectives to our community.

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There are so many people that still don't know where to get access to abortions, especially youth. Educating people on abortion and providing resources can be life changing. This is also a great opportunity to destigmatize and shift peoples negative views on this topic.

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I feel like there is so much to do!! There is also like angles and different aspects to this project rather than purely research and education (tabling, creating resources, making videos/podcasts, interviewing people, etc.) I think it would be really interesting to focus on the parts of abortion and abortion access that are not as talked about (how access is different in different parts of LA is one example)

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People may be hesitant about doing abortion due to the fact that it's not a pressing issue in California, however even though it's legal here it still does affect us. The fact that Roe v. Wade is being threatened by current cases in other states threatens access to abortion as a whole and the rights of people with uterus's. There are women right now who are driving over 1000 miles to get an abortion and although that may not be the case for California, that could potentially be in the future, because that's how dominoes fall.

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It is true that there would be a lot of narrowing down within the topic of gender, but there are so so so many interesting topics within gender that I'd bet everyone could find something they connect with.

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Even though abortion is legal in California, Planned Parenthood is a strong program located all around the U.S. Abortion will always be an important topic as well. Since Texas has now made abortion illegal I feel as of now couldn't be a more relevant time to speak on it. We also have to consider California as a whole, even though it is a primary blue liberal leaning state, there will always be people against abortion and those who work to make it illegal in California.

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I believe abortion is the most impactful topic that is still in Planned Parenthood's "domain." We'll be able to get more support from the organization and it falls more in line with their values. Like everyone mentioned, it's already relevant with Texas/heartbeat laws and it would be a great idea to promote it on our end. Also, it's extremely broad topic that can be expanded to apply to the entire female population, rather than Gender Identity which may not be as inclusive.

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I'm still interested in gender identity, but worry that there's not a lot of "action." I think there are clear things that we can do in our schools that would change something. I think right now the gender identity topic has a lot of talking involved, but not really identifying what's wrong in our communities and how we can change that.

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To speak to the concerns about not being educated enough about gender to do the topic, I would say that last year I knew very little about body image going into the project. I was able to learn so much through the project, and I would hope that peer advocates is a space where people feel like they can make mistakes while learning. We by no means need to be experts on a topic to pick it! We're teens giving our perspective and input on the topic.

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I’m not very educated on this topic of gender and identity and I don’t want to present wrong information and give the public wrong information on this topic.

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Ideally, we would be able to discuss the topic of gender identity and its factions in a more direct way to schools. While we should NOT avoid controversial ideas, there are so many aspects of gender identity that people may feel would resonate with them.

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I think gender should be our topic for this year just because of the sheer importance it holds in culture. I just feel as if most gender-based violence, discrimination, and other forms of unequal power is born out of a binary that was in its essence, created to delegitimization indigenous people, interrupt cultures and establish hegemonic bounds of culture. Applying these extremely important histories of the creation of gender is so important to deconstructing it and tying it in with many issues today, whether it be unequal pay in the workplace or the lack of access to transitioning options + literally every institution in this country being anti-trans anti-lgbtq af ESPECIALLY in terms of indigenous sovereignty and the right indigenous ppl have to reject gender. I am going off topic, the spectrum of this topic is not only extremely relevant, but will make an impact on anyone who consumes whatever we produce. Whether it b them having resources to provide to a transitioning friend, advocating for gender inclusive curriculum or language restructuring, or deconstructing gender as a whole and reverting back to nomadic society. There's a lot there

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This topic currently has a lot of relevance to it, and a lot of people are concerned about it. We have a perfect opportunity to educate on it right now.

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I feel like i’m not 100% educated on the topic and I don’t want to misspeak on the topic and offend others, with gender identity being such a broad spectrum theres so much to talk about and the chances of making a mistake can be higher.

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I worry that there are less tangible things we could do about abortion because it feels like a very legal matter right now.

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I just think that we, as peers, are a little too disconnected from the topic. With the gender identity topic, I think we'd be able to draw on personal experiences a lot more which would make everything feel more authentic and like our project is important to us personally. Also for the abortion topic I think it would be harder to find new and relevant information about it that people don't already know. Like what would our perspective be on abortion that hasn't already been said/done before

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Obviously both topics are super important and relevant, but I feel like abortion is less relevant in California than it might be in, say, Texas right now. I worry it might be a bit more like preaching to the choir in California?

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I feel like it would be a harder topic to be able to present and I feel like there wouldn’t be a specific angle we could talk about besides that we should decriminalize and legalize abortions federally.

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The biggest "issue" I have with gender identity and gender is that it is such a big topic. I think that there is a lot of education to do with gender identity, but I'm not sure I want to only stick with education. I want to take some sort of action (not sure what that would be) when it comes to our project for this year, and that's what makes me more excited for the abortion topic. That being said, I do think that there is a lot to DO in this project, which I love.

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Gender identity is an extremely expansive topic, and if there were to be a topic you were interested in but was eliminated sooner, we can totally touch on that while discussing gender identity. Gender identity also contains several niches which can line up with any person's interest, all of which we can delve into.