BBC Doctor on people with a prostate

Oh no! Have both the Van Tulleken decided to go with the mantras?

That would be very disappointing. I did think they would know better since they knew how to communicate health issues and body parts TO KIDS!!

Therefore knowing just how important plain English language use is and not language that obfuscates sex where it matters.

He calls pregnant women pregnant people

Pisses me right off.

Heck, someone needs to review his medical degree!

I thought you were paraphrasing but no he actually typed that.

Why does he feel he couldn't say, Men, transwomen and male non-binary people ?(and still be as pc as possible)

I don’t have English as a second language or a LD but I was confused after his tweets.

He states that there are many reasons that someone might or might not have a prostate and it made me think that I might be missing something and that maybe it is common for biological men to be born without one?I even googled to check my understanding of prostates.

Ah, but the retweet/screenshot of Prostate Cancer UK was spot on. Yeah, we know transwomen will have one but we want to reach as many men as possible, so we said men. Cos it's men, OK?

Q. "Which people have prostates, Doctor?"

A. "Anyone who has one! I don’t understand the question. Unless you’ve had it removed or were born without one then I’m talking to you!"

What craven nonsense. I used to quite like the Van Tulleken twins when they were cheery young docs on kids TV, but Xand at least seems to be morphing into a rather unlikeable middle aged man. Of course he understands the question! He's chosen to mangle language and be remarkably unclear in order to make sure he stays the right side of a particularly vicious set of witch-hunters looking for wrong thinkers.

Always great to see major public health figures throw people with learning disabilities, people with English as an additional language, and other people who need language to be plain and clear, under the bus in order to pander to a tiny group.

He's not even speaking to the whole population of transwomen. He's only speaking to the population of transwomen who stick their fingers in their ears and go "la la la la not listening!" if the word man/men is uttered. How big does he think that group actually is?

Does he genuinely think that very specific group is bigger than the group that he marginalises by his mangled, unclear language?

😂