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Birthing People

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lafemme · 28/12/2020 12:59

My local hospital trust have just posted this on their social media. (Photo attached)

Disappointed they've used the term 'birthing people' for a process that is exclusively experienced by women. A medical setting seems like a bizarre place to conflate language.

For the purposes of this poster I'd consider myself a woman in labour not a birthing person. Motherhood is not up for grabs.

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UppityPuppity · 28/12/2020 13:24

Only one type of person in the process of birth there - women.

Salami slicing women into our respective body parts and, in this case, bodily functions - is grotesque.

People don’t die giving birth - women do - more than one a week in the UK.

Please all complain.

Stonewall Champions too.

LaBellina · 28/12/2020 13:15

Utterly ridiculous to the point of being insulting. Definetly complain and share on social media.

Coreblimy · 28/12/2020 13:12

Urgh. This is getting ridiculous. I've seen the phrase "women and birthing people" used quite frequently, which at least uses the word women, albeit as a mealy mouthed compromise, but even that's better than this.

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lafemme · 28/12/2020 13:07

It's a the Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust

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ClaireP20 · 28/12/2020 13:06

Which hospital is it? I will highlight on social media.

Birthing people...I actually feel physically sick at how women are being discarded...are there really any transmen out there, pregnant, who would be offended by the term mothers to be. Or women who give birth. I mean, surely not.

I just want to do something about it..

MrsFluffyMuff · 28/12/2020 13:06

F**king hell, this is getting beyond a joke.

Winesalot · 28/12/2020 13:03

In the UK, lafemme? So dehumanizing.

thereplycamefromanchorage · 28/12/2020 13:01

Which hospital trust? I would complain

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