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Anna Wharton's avatar

I was thinking, for the child who now identifies as a dog or a cat in school, the word baby really must go from that post-natal poster. Perhaps ‘mammal that was assigned human at birth’.

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HeatherW's avatar

I can’t abide ‘additive language’. I dislike ‘women & birthing people’ more than I dislike the omission of ‘women’. One reason is - as you say - it turns the correct, sexed term ‘woman’ into a gender identity, thus de-sexing ‘woman’. The other reason is that it’s presented as a compromise - something that keeps ‘both sides happy’. I’ve had this idea put to me a few times, as a sort of moderate approach, as if insisting on ‘women’ is extremist.

Everyone knows that every birthing person is a woman….however she identifies. Additive language is a concession to anyone who thinks ‘gender identity’ is a better way than sex of categorising humans, divorcing us from our biology and making it easier for men to identify into our sex.

I don’t concede and I don’t consent!

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