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Pregnant woman, or pregnant person?

In recent years, it has become normalized to refer to pregnant women as pregnant people. When I was pregnant with my firstborn, I noticed this in various forms of medical literature. Much of it was in articles from legitimate medical sources. This isn't just a trend on social media, it has actually become commonplace to use this term and we as individuals are being encouraged to use it too. The words and expressions that people use are always influenced by the culture around them, and the world that they live in. In the case of the West, that world is now one where authorities, including the most important in delivering information relevant to pregnant women, are deviating from actual medical realities for the sake of ideology. They seek to further an agenda that proclaims to advocate rights and equality when in essence it has nothing to do with that. Women who do not identify as women are in an extreme minority, and they should be treated as such.
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CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
Complete logical failure. If I'm not mistaken, transgender people suffer in their biological body so by that I'd assume they'd do anything to avoid traumatizing processes of their bodies that just further confirm what their mind tries to deny and reject. I somewhat understand the attempt to normalize the term "menstruating people" even though I myself find it utterly ridiculous, but I understand that young trans boys probably shouldn't get on hrt too soon, just like putting them on birth control pills way too soon wouldn't be the best idea either. A trans man deliberately getting themselves pregnant is something I can't and probably will never understand.
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I somewhat understand the attempt to normalize the term "menstruating people

To me, this is no different to the attempt to normalize the terms "pregnant person" and "pregnant man". They are equally as illogical. Only a woman can menstruate, in the same way that only a woman can be pregnant. It is that very cycle itself that enables a woman to get pregnant.

A trans man deliberately getting themselves pregnant is something I can't and probably will never understand.

Me neither. It's beyond deranged.