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Planned Parenthood jumps the shark

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HecatesCats · 20/11/2020 14:07

Planned Parenthood have posted:

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

^Not all women can get pregnant, and women aren't the only people who get pregnant.

Not all women menstruate, and women aren't the only people who menstruate.

Cisgender women aren't the only people who get abortions.^

twitter.com/ppadvocacyma/status/1329482401781833732?s=21

I do hope someone asks what proportion of their national audience for these services is trans, what proportion don't have English as a first language and if neurodiversity plays any part in their thinking. For the sake of inclusivity. How many women are they in fact excluding with this shift in language?

Americans like to ask why the UK is a hotbed of GC feminism. But why are Americans so intent on robbing women of their rights? The right to name themselves, to single sex spaces, to single sex sports and so on. What went wrong over there?

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ShalomToYouJackie · 20/11/2020 14:33

women aren't the only people who get pregnant. yes, they are.

women aren't the only people who menstruate. yes, they are.

Infuriating.

leafinthewind · 20/11/2020 14:30

Yeah, much bigger than I thought it would be when this first came on my radar Hecates. I used to live out there and when transwomen starting playing my sport I thought it would all come out in the wash eventually. No such luck.

Duckwit · 20/11/2020 14:30

Woman-centric language is just so 1970s now.

Deeply problematic

I look back on the times when people used the word 'woman' when they were talking about birthing bodies and menstruators and absolutely cringe.

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HecatesCats · 20/11/2020 14:25

I was being somewhat provocative in my use of "Americans", I was obsessed with US culture growing up, I'm genuinely interested and really disappointed Leaf. It does seem to be a big old mess that we're getting dragged into.

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leafinthewind · 20/11/2020 14:21

"Americans" are also intent on overturning Roe v Wade so abortion will only be available on a state-by-state basis. There are many more Americans who are dangerous to women on the Christian right than the woke left. Whatever went wrong over there is no small thing. The US is a much more violent society than anywhere in Europe, and their politics just doesn't compare. I'm not surprised that liberals of all genital configurations are clinging to one another for support - however misguidedly, and however much their interests actually diverge. (I have very little handle on Latinos and Latinas voting for Trump, but that's clearly a whole other thing.)

I love the US, but this one is going to have to be on us to unpick. They're too busy with abortion and maternity and employment rights to deal.

Kit19 · 20/11/2020 14:16

these people are utter morons

and yet again sod off with weaponsing the infertility of women like me to justify your erasure of woman meaning adult human female

leafinthewind · 20/11/2020 14:11

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