Just listened to Woman’s Hour and feel offended by what I’ve heard. My usual take is ‘identify as what you want and I’ll go along with you’ whilst finding the entire trans debate bewildering. However the term ‘birthing people’ has touched a nerve with me.
trying to articulate why it has so offended me - I think it’s the number of women who die in childbirth, the number of women damaged and who have health problems related to this ( a friend with preeclampsia died of kidney failure )… and I just feel outraged!
please help me make sense of why this is so triggering