@AwaAnBileYerHeid
What argument would you use against pregnant people instead of pregnant women? I saw this recently in another context and didnt feel comfortable with it but was at a loss to verbalise why.
It deliberately obscures the fact that the only people who become pregnant are women.
Instead of acknowledging that a wide range of issues only affect women - access to birth control, ante-natal and post natal care, periods, breastfeeding etc. etc., all these things are atomised, so we can only talk about menstruators and pregnant people as though the two are not linked, or as if the absence of menstruation has no particular significance for women.
Instead, we are asked to accept that 'woman' can only be used to refer to a stereotype.
The language we need to talk about the practical (and completely gender neutral) impact of being female is removed, and we are forced to endorse the idea that 'woman' can only refer to the gendered stereotype that has been used to oppress.
The Scottish Government will claim that they are using 'gender neutral' language, but that isn't the case. They are using language that is 'sex neutral', because they have been persuaded that it is offensive to recognise the real consequences of sex and the rights that women need.