I have recently been given a survey to fill in regarding care during pregnancy and birth. It’s an NHS survey.
One of the questions asks how you are related to the baby, be it birth partner, family member or ‘the woman or person who gave birth.’
I don’t know why but this has really annoyed me. Women give birth. ‘People’ (read- transgender men) do not. Absolutely fine if you identify as a man etc etc but even if you live like a man, look like a man, think like a man... if you are pregnant and having a baby, you are biologically a woman, no matter how you think/feel/look on the outside.
I just feel a bit weird about the inclusion of this on a survey which is intended for women regarding the most fundamentally female thing you can do.
Thoughts?
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Fooffmalooff · 02/03/2020 14:31
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