Thank you very much for the question.
I know that it happens disproportionately in indigenous communities. When I go to speak in different communities, there's always a lineup of people to talk to me afterwards and say that it happened to them, to their mom or to their aunt. It goes down the generations sometimes. One of the survivors talked about how she was sterilized, how her mother was sterilized and how her auntie was sterilized. They come from the Blood Tribe, and they are worried about not having a generation of people to take care of the elders.
It happens disproportionately to indigenous people, to people with disabilities and to intersex people. We have found that through our studies. The number that my office has counted is 12,000. The Survivors Circle for Reproductive Justice has counted up to 15,000 people, and counting.
People say they're surprised when they hear that it's still happening, but it is happening. It's happening probably as we speak today.