For anyone who thinks calling pregnant women 'birthing people' is not a big deal, here's where that leads

[Clymene]

Femcare is an organisation in Canada which provides education and advocacy around periods, seeks to end period poverty and end the stigma and health issues associated with periods.

Look at this tweet in their series about PCOS: 'another complication that may arise as a result of polycystic ovary syndrome is a menstruator having a miscarriage or premature birth of the baby'

A woman who is pregnant is not menstruating you fucking idiots.

This is where this shitty language gets us. Organisations which are created and funded for women's health have completely erased us.

We are menstruators, birth givers, ovary havers.

Ps I am gratified to see that my iPad doesn't like the word menstruator. I'm sure that will change with the next update

Dystopian.

So awful.

I don't identify as a menstruator, what is it?

It’s hideous but look at all the lovely replies pointing out how awful the language is

Someone who menstruates @balla20

Personally, as a post-menopausal woman. I'm not sure what name I have. After-menstruator?

I know many women who use contraceptives which cease their menstruation. What do they call them I wonder?

It's really weird because there's a really handy catch all term for all of us: women.

That's appalling and totally insensitive. Luckily, we have plenty of suitable words to describe the arseholes that produce this kind of document

Fucking pile of shite. Fuck them all.

They don't even need to use a word at all there - they could've just said that polycystic ovaries increase the risk of miscarriage or premature birth!😡

That is also what happens when you underpay copywriters and editors. Either you get inexperienced employees who are oblivious or too junior to raise their hands.

Awful.

I well recall the horror of ‘menstruating’ while pregnant (miscarriages).

@Sexnotgender

Fucking pile of shite. Fuck them all.

I was trying to think of an elouqent way to express how disgusted this makes me feel but I think this sums it up perfectly.

Inhuman wankers.

What is frustrating is that UK law makes it clear than if you give birth to a child you're a Mother so just use that word...'Mother'.

@ZombieOtter

They don't even need to use a word at all there - they could've just said that polycystic ovaries increase the risk of miscarriage or premature birth!😡

That is a very good point. The Sands tweet could also have been written in a similar way.

But I expect they have to appease the terminally offended who feel overlooked if they're not explicitly using approved terminology.

Agree - dystopian

@ZombieOtter

They don't even need to use a word at all there - they could've just said that polycystic ovaries increase the risk of miscarriage or premature birth!😡

Exactly. They're doing this deliberately, all of them. Getting off on finally being given the green light to be raging misogynists in public.

Bastards, the lot of them.

So menstruator is now a generic for women? Even when they're not menstruating??

It's just bleeders, breeders and feeders isn't it? The dehumanising, age old way to describe women as a service/function. Even when they are not actually involved in that 'service'. Just a bloody collective term.

Ok. I'm going to call all men wankers.

Misinformation is another result. There's a period app that apologises for being forced to use the words female biology and female reproductive system when talking about menstruation. But at least they managed to get rid off that horrible word woman and so their article on PMS read (at the time I saw it) that "80% of people suffer from PMS".

Hmm. My newborn grand niece doesn't. She's people.
My father doesn't. He's people.
My husband, brothers, sons don't. They're people.

If only there was a word for the people who do suffer PMS...

Thankfully the commentators are all appalled at this insanity. I'm still angry...I'm raging at the cruelty of calling a woman going through a miscarriage or stillbirth a "menstruator."

There is CharleyParley - menstruators.

As a pregnant woman that's really upset me.

What absolute cunts 😠😡

The word you are looking for is 'WOMEN'

Absolutely vile these people surely have mothers and sisters ect makes me so angry

There are a couple of other threads where I've commented on this. The idea of a 'menstruator' miscarrying is plainly wrong and unnecessary. In general though, referring to women with PCOS as 'menstruators' is misguided and unkind. I have PCOS - I'm post menopause so not a menstruator any more. But before that, by far the most serious symptom I had was subfertility and not regularly menstruating - once in a blue moon, which made diagnosing and treatment so much harder.

And this shit is supposed, somehow, to be supportive?

Glad to see them getting ratio-ed to fuck and back in the replies.

fuckers.

Still waiting for the word "ejaculators" to be used by these clowns.

... and from their website:

crimsonconversations.andsisters.co.uk/femcare-and-trans-community/