How language has changed in 6 years

[Plasmodesmata]

Compare and contrast these two news reports, one from today, and the other from 2016.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61477168

www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-37606726

Aye, given we're discussing an article on periods that studiously avoids using the word even once, that is a bit rich.

This is patriarchy at its most blatant as it is male people demanding this , so that they can call themselves women

It's patriarchy all right.

But I think it's more that men want to stop women being able to call ourselves women; so that we are just 'things' or 'entities'. 'Those who birth'; 'those who menstruate'; etc.

Men don't really want to call themselves women. They just want to stop women doing it. For us to be de-contextualised and formless, like blood in a blood bank.

I'm totally against trans ideology, but it struck me that whilst what you say is true, the change here is actually to accommodate women who believe they are men.

Transwomen don't have periods, so the menstrual leave for "people who have periods" won't affect a trans woman because he won't have periods.

In a way it's a bit of a hoodwink on these trans activists; 'we are women we are women'

But.. you are not "people who have periods" so you don't get the menstrual leave, which would be an acute reminder you are not really a woman at all.

Another one I spotted was they were going on about wanting access to female toilets. The trans women did not want unisex toilets, they wanted to be allowed to walk into the women's.

But... what they got was unisex toilets. So now they're in with the men anyway.

This is all just a case of them being appeased, but in a crap way that doesn't really affirm them at all, and they are non the wiser. I don't see them complaining that toilets are unisex and not male and female but they can go in the female one.

The bigger threat is that it's being spread amongst our youth - the future leaders of.... everything, future policy-makers and law-makers - in schools.

If that doesn't stop then there is literally no stopping trans ideology being the dominant ideology.

Then we're really in for it. Then thought crimes become 100% real.

@SeldomHere
Nope, I contest the notion that the labels of "man" and "woman" are "sex class", rather than merely socially constructed gender categories built around sex (i.e. not sex itself)

I don't understand.
Are you saying that both sexes can be included in these social categories built around (each) sex?

Thank you, I have submitted my complaint.

Don’t know what happened there, I was thanking hearmywomanlyroar for the complaints link

I don't see why not. I don't see why people need to be socially categorized by "sexes" in the first place.

A small minority of people may be happy to not discriminate wrt sex, but the vast majority of people do want to know what someone's sex is, whether that be for risk assessment, or for reasons of religious observance, or before considering them as a potential sexual partner, or for medical treatment, or for any of a number of other reasons.

To try and force the majority of society to disregard sex is 1. authoritarian extremism and 2. never going to happen.

Gender is a misogynistic social construct used to oppress women and men
It is impossible to change Sex.

To try and force the majority of society to disregard sex is 1. authoritarian extremism and 2. never going to happen.

Quite.

I don't see why not. I don't see why people need to be socially categorized by "sexes" in the first place.

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How is it not authoritarian extremism to force trans people to abide by your rigid "sex binary".

Seldomhere, you can’t argue a scientific fact into being a philosophical concept.

Yep but this article was about periods. Bloody sex binary.

Oh, dear.

Look, gravity is not terribly accommodating to people who don't like it. Much the same with the dichotomous nature of sex, I'm afraid.

Right, I guess the usual back-and-forth derailed from the original subject somewhat.

Look, gravity is not terribly accommodating to people who don't like it.

I say that as someone who frequently resents gravity for various reasons. Talk about oppressive!

Oh dear @SeldomHere

Funny that you mention it.

Do you think gravity needs social and legal enforcement?

It did sneak in twice despite the Beeb's best efforts.

That's interesting as I'm sure it wasn't there at all this morning. I didn't screenshot though.

Well.

It's been updated. The first archived version from this morning shows that there were no instances of 'women' or 'woman' used at all.

web.archive.org/web/20220522013719/www.bbc.com/news/health-61477168

Don't the BBC usually add a note if they update an article?

Gosh, if women didn't archive this stuff people might even suggest we'd imagined the whole thing, eh?