Yes, ThePawtriarchy, it's the big announcement that is the problem, not remaking the video.
I find it incredibly offensive to be told that the word woman cannot be used in the context of female biological functions and associated health issues. This is not a dirty word, or an insult, or an error.
Woman is the word for adult human females. And a woman who identifies as trans remains just that - a woman. She may modify her body and appearance however she wishes as an adult, but this doesn't change her sex. And if she is fertile at any stage throughout her transition, she will continue to produce ova, not spermatozoa. And when her transition is exhausted, when there is nothing else she can cut off, excise from or attach to her body to make it resemble a male one, she will not be producing spermatozoa because she is not and will never be male. She will be an infertile female.
That's because we cannot change sex, and the word "woman" is a sex designator which is applied only to the sex class that produces large, immobile gametes and not the one producing small, mobile ones.
When we accept that the category word "woman" could ever be a word that excludes any particular group of adult human females, we have already lost the meaning of the word. And with it we lose so much more:
The ability to discuss our experiences as women, as humans born into female bodies and what this means in a male-dominated world. To assemble as women, to organise as women without men being allowed to join us so that we may freely discuss, address and fight our oppression under the patriarchy.
That's why Adriene's announcement saddens me - it is another incident, (however inadvertent) in the war on women. Somebody else called the phenomenon of female erasure "a death by a thousand cuts" on the Always thread and I think that's why it can be so difficult to get why others are angry about any given issue.
If it's not something you're not interested in anyway or if you're not bothered by such a change because it has no effect on how you're using a product or a service, it can be hard to get all that exercised about it.
I get that.
But I urge you to at least remember this, to keep a mental tally of every time an incident of female erasure occurs, even if it doesn't upset you at that particular moment. And then maybe you will notice that this is part of a wider problem.