..to prefer to be an expectant mother rather than a pregnant person?

[CatWithKittens]

The BMA has advised doctors not to refer to an expectant mother but to a pregnant person. Leaving aside the obvious question as to whether somebody who is trans-gender and pregnant is not also going to be a mother, do other people think I am being unduly sensitive when I say, that if either term has to be used, I would still prefer to be referred to as an expectant mother (if we get round to DC6)?

I know very little about gender politics but why is this even something that would come up? Why would a transperson be in this situation?

Transwomen lack the reproductive organs necessary to concieve and transmen are surely not going to be interested in something so fundamentally a part of what they're transitioning away from?

Am I missing something?

Jengnr, this is an interview with pregnant transman Hayden Cross.

Yes! Agree totally. :)

YANBU.

Jengnr you are maybe missing the point some people are very mixed up.

I feel very sorry for Hayden and Hayden's bay as Hayden's expectations are very mixed up.

That was a surprisingly non sensationalized article. Not what I'd expect from the Sun, and their experts also gave very sensible commentary. I can't help but feel very sorry for Hayden, but they sure do seem to have swallowed an awful lot of gender stereotyped thinking. I thought that girls schools were quite good on the 'girls can be anything they want to be' (I dislike sex segregated schools but having been to one thought that that was one area where they did bring advantages).

Anyway as an example, it shows to me that compassion should be showed to troubled individuals, and guidance should be sensitive to differences. Being inclusive shouldn't mean effectively erasing large groups of people so as to make people who aren't a part of those groups feel not excluded. Better surely to reference them directly. Especially in cases where simply changing definitions isn't going to help them anyway. Individuals like Hayden need specialist support.