“Don’t be weird about this,” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the progressive star and rumored 2028 presidential contender, said on her live video broadcast as she raised her shirt to angle the syringe into her abdomen.(“别对这事大惊小怪，”AOC一边掀起衬衫将注射器对准腹部，一边在直播中说。) Then, with resignation(无奈地，顺从地), “even though I know all of you will be.”
“别对这事大惊小怪，”众议员亚历山德里娅·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯（AOC）在她的直播视频中一边掀起衬衫、将注射器对准腹部，一边说道。这位进步派明星、传闻中的2028年总统竞选人随后无奈地补了一句：“尽管我知道你们都会这样。”
The New York Democrat is 36 years old, and this week she revealed that she is beginning the process of freezing her eggs during Congress’s August recess(休会期). In the video, Ocasio-Cortez said that she was seeking to destigmatize the realities of women’s lives as they navigate the conflicting demands of professional aspiration and family building; she explained to viewers the process of the hormonal injections she was administering to herself, showing them the drugs and injector she was using arrayed on a paper towel, beside a disinfecting towelette.(视频中，AOC表示她试图消除女性生活现实的污名，并展示了自我注射激素的过程。) The procedure, Ocasio-Cortez explained, was not covered by her insurance, and she would be paying “100% out of pocket”. She had been saving to afford it for some time. “This is a choice that I am making to feel more in control of my life,” she said, going on to assert her hope that transparency about such questions will destigmatize(消除……的污名) women’s reproductive lives and promote their dignity.
这位纽约州民主党人现年36岁。本周，她透露自己将在国会八月休会期间开始冻卵。视频中，奥卡西奥-科尔特斯说，她试图消除女性生活中那些现实问题的污名——她们在职业抱负与组建家庭的双重需求之间挣扎；她向观众解释了自己注射激素的过程，并展示了所用药物和注射器——它们整齐地摆放在一张纸巾上，旁边还有一片消毒湿巾。奥卡西奥-科尔特斯解释说，这项手术不在她的保险覆盖范围内，她将“100%自费”。她已经为此攒了一段时间的钱。“这是我为了让自己更能掌控生活而做出的选择，”她说，接着又表示，她希望这类问题的透明化能够消除女性生育生活的污名，并提升她们的尊严。
It’s a bold move from a likely presidential contender. The decision to go public with her egg-freezing distinguishes Ocasio-Cortez as the rare Democrat willing to articulate an alternative vision of gender politics in an era when the Trump administration and its allies have rapidly eroded women’s civil rights protections, reproductive rights and workforce access, but when many mainstream Democrats have eschewed a robust defense of women’s 20th-century gains in favor of coveting white male votes and making overtures to the manosphere.(公开冻卵的决定使AOC成为少数愿意提出另一种性别政治愿景的民主党人。) Still, more than a political statement of values, the move may also serve as an early confrontation with what may be among the future-candidate AOC’s thorniest electoral vulnerabilities: her sex.
对于一位可能的总统竞选人来说，这是一个大胆的举动。公开冻卵的决定，使奥卡西奥-科尔特斯成为少数愿意提出另一种性别政治愿景的民主党人——在特朗普政府及其盟友迅速侵蚀女性公民权利保护、生育权利和职场准入的时代，而许多主流民主党人却回避对女性20世纪成果的有力捍卫，转而觊觎白人选票，并向“男性圈”示好。尽管如此，此举与其说是政治价值观的表态，不如说是对未来候选人AOC最棘手的选举弱点之一的早期直面：她的性别。