'Don't call us menstruators' petition taken down by Change.org

Calling me a menstruator is just offensive defending the position by saying I'm sorry you feel that way is fucking more offensive

Me and DH had this conversation the other day, he thought I was over-reacting to being called:

• a person with cervix
• a person who menstruates
• a person with ovaries
• chest feeding instead of breastfeeding
• person who is pregnant

In ads by cancer charities, NHS for cervical screening and maternity care and feminine hygiene products.

I pointed out that they haven't changed it to

• person who ejaculates for condoms
• person with prostate or person with testicles for cancer charity ads

It's only the words 'woman' and 'women' that are being banned.

He didn't have an answer for that and went quiet.

Just to spell that out. A person is much more than their sex.

But sometimes sex actually matters and to pretend otherwise is harmful to women in particular who have suffered abuse for no other reason than their sex.

And we are not "defining" people by their biology
We define a persons sex by their biology but nothing more and bloody wish other people would give us the same respect

Yes it's a man, they can still bake a cake , they can still like pretty clothes and make up, we don't care.

We are not forcing people to accept a set of stereotypes based on their sex

Being reduced to people who menstruate is reducing us to our biological function

Our biology dictates not just our biological function but also how society treats us

We want to be able to talk about the later

The pay gap for people who society believes are likely to menstruate ?
The mutilation of the genitals of people who when they grow up are likely to menstruate

I mean please, it is our biology that defines how others see us and therefore how they treat us
And so now they want to reduce us to pure biology, sub human again?

I’ll agree with that when people who need condoms are called sperm makers or ejaculators, not all men make sperm and some sperm makers are not ‘men’... but no one has to mangle the English language or invent offensive nonwords for them.

“both reducing women to their biological functions, and dismissing that those biological functions are what differentiate women from men.”

This is the part I don’t get about GC feminists... you don’t want to be defined by your biology but you also want everyone to be defined by their biology. The whole point of using “people who menstruate” is that not all women menstruate and some people who don’t identify as women do menstruate. The only one equating women to menstruaters is you lot.

Anyone signed the Change petition About the petition started by a man called John?

No it's the same one. The original thread has been moved to Activism. That's good it's been picked up. Jade was keen to get some media coverage.

Is that the second petition ?