Abortion rights activists debate if gender-neutral language should be used in messaging to be more inclusive of LGBTQ people. - NBCOUT
. Even the National Education Association, the country’s largest public teachers union, recently proposed changing the word “mother” to “birthing parent” in contracts.
“The noble intent behind omitting the word ‘women’ is to make room for the relatively tiny number of transgender men and people identifying as nonbinary who retain aspects of female biological function and can conceive, give birth or breastfeed,” Paul wrote. “But despite a spirit of inclusion, the result has been to shove women to the side.
“Every single being who has ever needed an abortion in the entire history of humanity was female,” best-selling author Helen Joyce, who has written a series of articles for The Economist and a book challenging transgender identities, said. “And until very recently, for most people, we use the word ‘women’ for female people.”
Adri Pèrez, 29, who is nonbinary, had an abortion as a teenager after being sexually assaulted and before transitioning.even then would have been insulting and factually incorrect as well.”
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