Women and anyone with a cervix

[Zillyzillyzillymouse]

Women and anyone with a cervix is written in my weekly magazine. What absolute rubbish is this? It gives me the rage.

YANBU

😂 How dreadful to see someone modelling reasonable behaviour!

Why do they have to refer to our body parts.

Why cant they refer to me without talking about vaginas cervix or uterus.

Woman it's quite simple.

The nature of the thread was clear from the title, so why bother opening it. And replying to it.

As long as it says 'women and...whatever' then it's fine I guess. If someone with a cervix is hell bent on denying they're biologically a woman then I guess it's inclusive to them. If it omitted 'women' or put them secondary to 'cervix havers' then I'd be annoyed.

Their sex is female, their gender is male. I reckon @TheLightSideOfTheMoon understands both the biological reality and the definition of the word trans.

Yes, a typo.

Or non binary people - I prefer 'women +' language as I think given health inequalities for women one should acknowledge the vast majority of people concerned are cis women when, presumably as is the case here, taking about healthcare. Also this is only bring used in healthcare contexts. No one is expecting a restaurant manager to say 'Take those drinks to that table of women and people with cervixes over there'! 😅

The word women is inclusive of ALL women. It’s exclusive of men, who don’t have a cervix so no, YANBU. Even women who don’t think they are women, are women. I don’t think we’re doing them any favours by indulging their fantasy.

The only people apart from women who have a cervix are girls.
Check out Milli Hill's newsletter 'The Word is Woman" for lots more rage-inducing examples of this sort of nonsense.

Trans men are women. 🤷‍♂️ HTH

If that gave you rage you need to work on managing your emotions.

Non-binary people are either male or female FFS

I have a male friend who has a cervix. And no, it doesn’t make him a woman. He has had top surgery but due to serious long term illness is unable to have bottom surgery.

Yay more trans bashing!!

This should keep you all busy for the evening, enjoy

I came across "people with vulvas" at a museum recently.

Not trans bashing just reality. People are free to believe what they want about themselves but they can’t make the rest of their world believe they are the opposite sex. I’m sorry if that hard to hear for some of you but it’s the truth.

I guess they could write “Women and people who don’t identify as women but who have cervixes”….

But I suspect OP would have an issue with that too….

Women and anyone with a cervix recognises and includes everyone, without excluding or erasing women.

It is inclusive of trans men. Yes, yes - I know. Those words also offend you. Because you would substitute them for women. Because inclusion doesn't matter to you.

But it does matter to lots of people - and lots of women too.

I am happy that neither women nor trans people are being erased, that we are finding ways - tiny ways, in tiny sentences - to balance the rights of both.

Technically, cervix (pl cervices) is the Latin word for neck which is why the upper vertebrae are numbered C1 - C7.
The tube shaped entrance of the uterus (Latin for womb) is known as the cervix since it resembles a little neck (like the neck of a bottle) .

Well if the NHS use it, then it's fair game for a weekly magazine.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5284560-people-with-a-cervix

Because it's an invitation to have a cervical smear....? (I'm assuming)

But surely a trans man IS a woman, WAS a woman, will always BE a woman, who just wants to IDENTIFY as a woman but who knows they aren't really???

To be fair, I do understand that one. Why would a woman who’s had her cervix removed need a cervical screening?