According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Your individual STI risk depends on a range of factors, including:
- what sexual activities you’re doing
- both you and your partner’s sexual history
- whether you use condoms or other barrier methods
Remember, you can contract an STI regardless of you or your partner’s anatomy.
Often, people assume that lesbians can’t get pregnant, or that lesbian sex can’t result in pregnancy. That’s a myth based on the assumption that both women are cisgender.
If one partner is transgender and has a penis and the other is cisgender and has a vagina, they can have penis-in-vagina sex.
In many cases, this means that pregnancy is possible.
If you want to avoid pregnancy, talk to your partner about birth control.
This may include a combination of hormonal contraception, like the pill, and condoms.
