There’s a petition on the go …
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/716553
Quote:
Petition
Require the use of sexed language in government-funded health communications
Require the terms woman, girl and mother be used in their sexed meanings of adult female person, female child and female parent in government-funded healthcare groups and communications including policy and guidance documents, legislation and public health communications.
The Women's Health Strategy for England says sex-specific language should be used 'to communicate matters that relate to women’s and men’s individual health issues, and their different biological needs. However, that increasingly communications of all kinds related to women's health in the UK are being desexed. We believe this goes against well-established principles of health communication and risks confusion, inappropriate inclusion, and miscommunication and so undermines women's health and rights.
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Seems eminently sensible to me. As well as being downright insulting to women to reduce their status to ‘birthing person’ or ‘person with a womb’, deliberate, political obfuscation of language in healthcare carries genuine risks to safety.
There are already trans-identifying males who have convinced themselves their biology has changed and they won’t need a prostate check when they get into their 50s.