If you respect women
Nope nope nope.
It’s not too hard for anyone to understand, but it’s not true. It’s just trendy jargon.
“not just cis women” – classic. It’s not just women who have ovaries, you bigot! Except it is.
As for creating “a safe space,” guess what: it’s not dangerous to be called a woman even if you identify as nonbinary or a man or Paul Bunyan’s blue ox Babe.
“If”. The theoretical basis of gender identity is empty, so no thank you. Pregnancy is sex-linked, there is no need to reference drivel when discussing it.
Also the “Let’s be clear” bit, when clear is the last thing it is.
Funny how “inclusive” language specifically EXCLUDES the very demographic that comprises the category. It “excludes” way more than it “includes.”
Also, what happened to “gender is not the same thing as sex”? WTF is this “people with diverse genders/sexes can be pregnant”? There are only two possible sexes. One of those sexes categorically “can NOT be pregnant.” There’s no such thing as “diverse … sexes can be pregnant.” No, they can’t.
WTF, “dangerous language”? What dangerous language? What’s dangerous to actual health of actual people, i.e., a problem in the actual practice of medicine, is the inablity to recognize that women are the class (sex) of people who get pregnant, and the other sex does not. If stupid “gender” claims put false information on identification documents and medical records, medical personnel might not recognize the actual medical cause of your distress. You and your baby can die if you lie about your sex, so that your condition isn’t properly diagnosed and treated. Imbeciles.
“Safe space for ALL” — except women, of course.
Why do they limit themselves to a mere 3, 4, 5 or whatever sexes and dentities? What about those of us who identify as giraffes? Sure, there are common cis-giraffes and some trans-giraffes, and non-cis would overlap with trans, but a lion could be classified as a non-cis, non-trans giraffe, which is I suppose a roundabout way of identifying it as a non-giraffe, but still valid.
As Oliver Hardy used to say all the time to poor old Stan Laurel: “This is a fine mess you’ve got us into, Stanley.”
Actually, that’s pretty clear. It’s a tautology. “If you are someone who agrees with trans ideology (by accepting gender identities and using the pronouns) then you are someone who agrees with trans ideology (by believing men can get pregnant.)” A = A. Can’t get much more lucid than that.
What about otherkins? Not everyone identifies as a person after all. Surely the correct term is ‘pregnant beings’, unless of course some don’t identify as beings, then it’ll have to be … My head hurts but I bathe in the glow of knowing I’ve seen though Laura Simone Lewis’ harmful remarks.
Simon, it’s easy. Just call them “pregnants” or better still, “the pregnants” Nothing wrong with that, just another group like “the gays” or “the blacks”
(Shudder)
What an absolute waste of time for the medical profession. Do they now have to ask every obese man with stomach pain whether he might be pregnant, without referring to such discriminatory words as “vagina” or “uterus” or “woman?” Leaving your doctors in the dark about your actual sex is a completely idiotic idea.
https://www.feministcurrent.com/2021/07/28/the-problem-with-preferred-pronouns/
Of course, all the blogs and newspapers are blaming the nurses. They should have known. This is what happens when you don’t fully incorporate procedures for this week’s trans-dogma at the hospital.
Balderdash. This is a woman. If she hadn’t lied to the hospital and said she was a man, she would now be a mother.
@Sastra #5
I agree that “all genders can be pregnant” follows logically from “belief in gender ideology”. But lots of people (most? all?) are not consistently logical in their thought processes. I have a distressingly large number of liberal-ish friends who will say things in support of trans ideology and then some time thereafter post in support of women and girls, not recognizing that the statements are actually in conflict. People compartmentalize. “We should say ‘pregnant people’ because transmen can get pregnant.” Followed by: “Period shaming is serious problem for young girls” or “Men don’t have any idea what it’s like to grow up as a girl, dealing with all the leering and sexual comments from men”. Somehow these don’t conflict. So it’s not terribly surprising that someone might remind others of the consequences of gender ideology. This is why we have biology professors stopping a class to apologize for using the term “pregnant woman” earlier in the class. Unfortunately, the typical response to pointing out the conflict is not to reject gender ideology but to apologize for failing to use the proper gender-neutral terminology.