stump có nghĩa là gì?

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Does *stump* refer to something physical (maybe related to the bodies of transgender people) or is it used to metaphorically refer to something other than that such as societal problem about them?


"...The assumption that it is acceptable for trans people to be coerced by law - or, as in Britain, by economic circumstance - into being sterile goes to the heart of the way trans bodies have been constructed, understood, maligned and contained by those with an ethical duty to treat us, and by society at large. 'Trans people were never meant to reproduce!' the British trans woman Gabrielle Balfe says ironically in an essay on trans fertility in a zine published by the Trans Health Collective:

'We were a sick aberration, a dead branch on the tree of society that needed to be cut to avoid sucking up any more nutrients from the healthy parts - but with a method that would avoid leaving an ugly blunt *stump* ruining the view.'