'Pregnant people'

I sincerely hope there isn’t many pregnant girls (female child), not something to be promoted anyway and only pregnant women.

Pregnant people to me is inclusive of women and girls. It’s quicker than saying that.

Child safeguarding is the rational reason. Equating puberty with womanhood is the age old adultification trope that has always enabled the abuse of young girls and kept them unsafe..Nobody has avoided the word woman in any of my own pregnancies. When it comes to language around pregnancy, protecting child safeguarding standards comes first every time, if that means using people to avoid adultification of young pregnant girls, fine. I'd rather that than language that perpetuates the idea that children are sexually matured.

Child safeguarding is the rational reason. Equating puberty with womanhood is the age old adultification trope that has always enabled the abuse of young girls and kept them unsafe..Nobody has avoided the word woman in any of my own pregnancies. When it comes to language around pregnancy, protecting child safeguarding standards comes first every time, if that means using people to avoid adultification of young pregnant girls, fine. I'd rather that than language that perpetuates the idea that children are sexually matured.

Child safeguarding is the rational reason. Equating puberty with womanhood is the age old adultification trope that has always enabled the abuse of young girls and kept them unsafe..Nobody has avoided the word woman in any of my own pregnancies. When it comes to language around pregnancy, protecting child safeguarding standards comes first every time, if that means using people to avoid adultification of young pregnant girls, fine. I'd rather that than language that perpetuates the idea that children are sexually matured.

The youngest pregnant CHILD I've been aware of was 5 years old

Lina Medina in 1939?

Thankfully few children experience both rape and precocious puberty. It's not a rational reason to avoid the word 'woman' when referring to pregnancy.

@6ate9 Most plants lead sex lives that the average human would consider debauched and utterly irresponsible.

I'll never look at my rose bushes the same way again 🌹

@6ate9 Most plants lead sex lives that the average human would consider debauched and utterly irresponsible.

@6ate9 Most plants lead sex lives that the average human would consider debauched and utterly irresponsible.

The vast majority of carbon-based life-including plants, fungi, bacteria, insects, and birds—reproduce through seeds, spores, cell division, or laying eggs rather than carrying an embryo inside a body.

Please tell us who lays the eggs?
I found out the other day that nettles are both male and female.

I'm going with pregnant carbon-based life forms to be extra-inclusive like

Very true! I was giving @Mouldemort the benefit of the doubt in case his IQ was the same size as his feet!!

They can grasp it - they just pretend not to. However, if they were part of a couple trying for a baby they'd know perfectly well that a woman and a man need to be involved - they would know exactly which was which and who would produce the sperm and the egg, and they would know who would carry it and give birth to it. There wouldn't be any faux naivety and it wouldn't be oh so complex and nuanced.

Some people just can’t seem to grasp it!

Every human life on Earth shares the biological and literal reality of being born of a woman.

If you get pregnant, you’re a woman, a reproductively adult female.

There’s nothing remotely mysterious about it.

Pregnant people includes all people who can get pregnant. Pregnant women doesn't. That's why it is used. Honestly, do you get upset if people say "citrus fruit?" because apples aren't citrus fruit?

We aren't talking about specific cases, but a general term. Of course "pregnant girl" works if a girl is pregnant, and pregnant woman works if you are talking about it women. "Pregnant people" is a general term which includes everyone who is pregnant.

I've explained myself very clearly and I have nothing else to say on matter. Transphobia rots the brain and bleeds into perfectly normal use of language.

But where do tomatoes fit?

I think you are going to have to drop your exclusionary language and just say 'food'.

Would you like ice and fruit in your gin and tonic?

Oh, that's a lovely looking pie, what is the filling? Oh, fruit! Great, that's my favourite!

You should eat five piece of fruit and vegetable day, but do strive for variety - for example, you could have a fruit with breakfast, but a fruit at lunch, and then after having vegetable with vegetable for dinner, finish with fruit! Being healthy doesn't need to be boring!