Pregnant people?! It's 'women'

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Two links to surveys today, from Kings College London and Cardiff University. Both surveys wanting to speak to 'pregnant people'.

It's women who get pregnant and give birth. Male members of our society are unable to conceive, grow and birth babies.

Please, please, please - why are you accepting these requests? Do you not read them first? (Especially seeing as you allow them to post their links for free).

I'm appalled that Mumsnet is now complicit in erasing the word 'woman'.

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Agreed.

'peoplesnet'

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Agree

Absolutely!! Come on mumsnet you know better than this!

Any brand that uses people instead of the word woman can fuck off. It’s a shame the NHS does this as I pay my taxes so will damn well use it.

Show me someone who has given birth and was not born a woman.

I agree, it's bloody appalling that MN is accepting these ridiculous and damaging survey requests.

If MNHQ can't see the importance of protecting the language around being a woman, then why are we all here?

Shouldn't that be "birthing peoplesnet"? Birthernet for short? Or maybe breedernet?

Yes mumsnet this has outraged me today

Why can’t the word woman be used ffs

This is just ridiculous

Women get pregnant… please use the words women and mothers. Trying to use so called inclusive wording for a teeny tiny minority just alienated the majority

Yep, they can fuck off.

Hear fucking hear.

I've noticed my 11 year old using person a lot, I correct her every time when it should be woman/girl.
She's catching on so surely mumsnet can too?!

Woman, adult human female! The kind that get pregnant! It’s really not that complicated.

Totally agree. Only female can give birth.

Im going to put my head above the parapet here and probably get banned, but “transmen” also don’t give birth, women do. Transmen can’t want to be a man all that much when they still want to be able to do the ultimate thing that defines a woman-give birth

Agree.

Can’t say I’m shocked though.

I won't bash mumsnet, they're one of the few platforms that support us terfs (as I keep getting called), but I would join the call to ask that any surveys or sponsorships use the word woman when referring to....actual women.

@mnhq should refuse to share these requests on the basis it causes offence to their members. That might send a message.

Agreed!

Quite. And it DOES cause offense. A lot of offense.

Stupid bloody government as well for allowing this to creep not only into universities but also the NHS. Asleep at the wheel.

Totally agree. The phrase "pregnant people" is bollocks and drives me nuts. It's "pregnant women" because only women can get pregnant. Men can't.

There seem to be far too many attempts to erase women going on.

Agreed.

If a person is pregnant, exactly what part of womanhood are they rejecting?

This is a serious question. I realise that not all women can/want to be pregnant but the biology that supports pregnancy is pretty much the defining features of womanhood.

What parts of womanhood do they reject? I think those non-biological parts are optional.

Agreed

Agreed.

And it's no good saying "women are people so what's wrong with calling them people". In that case you might as well call us something like pregnant bipeds or pregnant mammals. Pregnant organisms. It's dehumanising.

Yours truly, a pregnant woman.