Planned Parenthood jumps the shark

So they are stating that women's rights are transphobic

Yes that's it. Make it impossible for Women to talk about anything that concerns them without being denounced as 'transphobic'.

A follow on tweet in that thread. My jaw is on the floor. Anyone objecting is going piled on by TRAs. Absolutely sickening.

And note too the statement, so often now brazenly stated, that woman-centric anything is trans-erasing.

So they are stating that women's rights are transphobic.

So will all those people who have been saying that there is no conflict between trans rights and women's rights now admit that they were wrong?

Sorry Willis you’re quite right! What was I thinking?? 😆 I forgot to centre men in my feminism there

Thank you 😊

We could justreverse this:

Part of observing #womenashumanbeings is acknowledging that the non-use of woman-centric language in reproductive & abortion advocacy is erasure of women's health care

this is the token nod to transmen

No, I don't think that's the main drive behind this. No female born group have this sort of power or elicit this kind of enthusiastic support.

Part of observing #TransAwarnessWeek is acknowledging that the use of woman-centric language in reproductive & abortion advocacy is erasure of trans health care.

????????????

Oh wait, I finally get it — this is the token nod to transmen, who would be ignored by the trans lobby if they didn’t provide an excuse to erase women from female things like pregnancy.

A lovely late friend of my DM used to volunteer as a counsellor at one of the Massachusetts PPs. She would have been appalled!

Michelle I thought that too. "The use of woman-centric language... is erasure of trans..." Right there in a tweet. The use of woman-centric language is woman-centric. As, in fact, conversations about fertility and abortion should be. Sigh...

When are we going to have an Adult Female Human Week when everyone will bend over backwards to say positive things about women and moreover say them using proper words not made up wokespeech?

And note too the statement, so often now brazenly stated, that woman-centric anything is trans-erasing.

Ergo, being trans supportive requires active woman erasure.

Let's reflect for a moment on whether using language that creates exclusion and anger in 52% of the population regarding less than 1% of the population is really a positive, kind or even sensible thing if you truly care about the best interests and successful inclusion of that less than 1%?

Now Biden's got in I imagine we can expect a lot more of this sort of thing.

The response of most people who haven't been soaked in all this is going to be "nonsense" on reading that list.

Only adult human females have the biology to get pregnant. No one in the history of the human race has ever been pregnant that was not a female.

Only adult human females have the biology to menstruate. No one in the history of the human race has ever menstruated that was not a female.

There is no such thing as a 'cisgender woman', stop misgendering people.

Only human females require abortions, because only human females can get pregnant.

That some human females choose not to call themselves women does nothing whatsoever to change these facts. It is perfectly possible to be inclusive of females who would prefer to be termed as NB or TM without implying that biological reality and facts have magically ceased to exist. It does nothing to support the desired outcome of improving life for minorities, it just makes people switch off.

It was Planned Parenthood that initially set me off in the foothills of the peak, with a tweet talking about "pregnant people" in about 2016. I had always been a bit dubious about Liberal feminism but that was the first thing outside feminist circles that made me do a face.

I have never used this phrase before but

Fuck This Shit

Re: Part of observing #TransAwarnessWeek is acknowledging that the use of woman-centric language in reproductive & abortion advocacy is erasure of trans health care.

Hecates I think it's more of a federation, but right general idea. I certainly don't actually think they are MAssholes - which is what I got deleted for. I was just enjoying the pun, really.

And they're not morons or idiots. They're doing a difficult and a dangerous job in a country not naturally given to regarding women's reproductive rights as important. They did say something... stupid, maybe? But I think I'd go with misguided, in the absence of other evidence. As I said upthread, they're not operating in a political culture that we would recognise. It's going to be on Europeans to sort this one out because they're too busy with other stuff.

In the real world however 💐

I got deleted! I mostly wanted to point out that it was a local PP and not the national one.

It's as if Planned Parenthood have copied and pasted this dross directly from an email from some lobbying body.

these people are utter morons

Indeed.

Do planned parenthood get funding or get paid for dishing out the synthetic hormones? I know that's one place a trans person can go to get them so I wonder if there is a financial incentive to be on board the trans train?