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Originally Posted by Anonymouse
Her correcting the autocue is, hopefully, the beginning of the end for political correctness. The term 'pregnant people' is grammatical nonsense - the term 'people' is generic, covering men, women and children. But men can't be pregnant (without drastic surgery), nor (without premature puberty) can young girls, and boys can't, either. There is one, and only one, kind of person who can be pregnant: A WOMAN.
It seems Martine is of the 'call a spade a spade' crowd. Good. We need more like her.
Not that I watch TV, of course; I found out about this via random surfing. 
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I agree, but this doesn’t raise sufficiently different issues to those already under discussion here in the gender ideology thread, hence
thread merged
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Lots of newspapers have covered this; notably the BBC news website is ignoring it completely. Here’s one without a paywall that includes the relevant clip of Croxall rolling her eyes and saying
women after visibly stuttering when she encountered the term ‘pregnant people’ on her autocue.
https://www.ladbible.com/entertainme...13377-20250624