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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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There are trans men who get pregnant and give birth. They certainly are a minority, but they do exist and it is kind to recognize that through inclusive language.
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@SW-User Trans men who were or are pregnant are still women. You are a "man" when you can no longer conceive and carry a baby.

I don't care about what's kind or not. What matters is whether something is rational and truthful.
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@SW-User Who appointed you to decide who is a man or a woman?
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@SW-User No one. It's just there's that thing called biology that decided only a woman can get pregnant. Perhaps you should take this argument up with nature 🤷🏻‍♀️
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@SW-User Nature has no definitions of men or women.
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@SW-User Nature has dictated that only a woman can get pregnant.
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@SW-User Nature doesn't speak English, or any human language.
What it means to be a "man" or a "woman" is different in different times and places.
Today there are thousands if not millions of people with wombs, who know themselves as men and are seen as men by those who know and love them. It isn't your business to tell them differently. Nature doesn't. Nature is silent about all these human concerns.
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@SW-User
Nature doesn't speak English, or any human language.
What it means to be a "man" or a "woman" is different in different times and places.
Today there are thousands if not millions of people with wombs, who know themselves as men and are seen as men by those who know and love them. It isn't your business to tell them differently. Nature doesn't. Nature is silent about all these human concerns.

This is pure trash. Say something rational or don't respond to me at all.

I am only interested in facts, not what your personal beliefs or weird persuasions are.
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@SW-User Then wake up and acknowledge that trans people exist and that thinking about sex and gender has evolved considerably since the 1950s.