Fuck, midwifery is really changing

[HelenOn]

I've joined a group for students recently and this sort of thing is always asked.

I'm so fed up. Is nothing just for women anymore?

Bump

Not sure what you’re looking for from your post, OP?

Anyway, midwifery aside, child bearing and childbirth has always, and will always, be exclusive to females. Obviously.

I’m not too au fait with all the terms and identities out there. I actually find a lot of it to be nonsense truth be told .

Anyway, no amount of surgery, hormone treatment or ticking a particular self identifying box on a form can take away the fact that only women can have babies. It’s why we bleed every month, it’s why we have lactating breasts. It’s ours and ours alone. Is it this you wanted confirmation of?

The girl who wrote that post has either poor writing ability or an over inflated need to be PC if she can’t find a way to attribute endometriosis to women.

The world has gone fecking mad.

I can't even.

"affects the female and on rare occasions the male reproductive system"

But she's training to be a midwife... midwife means "with woman" thus the male innards are not something that needs to concern her...

Fuck me this is awful

I'm part of that group and was just baffled too

Dear god

How did it go down in the group? I'm confused why she's talking about asking a mtf transitioner. Surely if she is concerned about anyone, it should be the ftm?

Mumsnet really needs a separate “complaining about trans” board

Has anyone commented? Please do, if you are part of the group.

Speechless.

Somebody commented in the past about a similar issue... Because it's now considered wrong to use words relating directly to female body parts, and more respectful to be universal, such as 'Chestfeeding'.

They said "But midwife literally translates to 'with woman'.

That reply got flamed completely and she was told not to be such an arrogant twit, and remember not to put such emphasis on a word that's hundreds of years old