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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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Imsleepy · 31-35
Someone being a minority does not mean they should be treated differently. If inclusive language offends you then you’re just a bigot.
Glassysky · 26-30, M
@Imsleepy yea im a bigot
Pherick · 41-45, M
@Glassysky Brave of you to come out and admit it like that. I mean not that brave really, this is anonymous, but kinda brave I guess?
Glassysky · 26-30, M
@Pherick Im a bigot by western standards, because I recognise trannys as mentally ill?
SW-User
@Imsleepy
Someone being a minority does not mean they should be treated differently. If inclusive language offends you then you’re just a bigot.

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@Imsleepy Someone being among the majority does not mean they should be treated differently. If truthful, reality-based language offends you then you’re just a bigot.
Imsleepy · 31-35
Who is advocating for treating the majority in this instance differently? Truthful, reality-based language does not offend me. I’m not the one triggered by the appropriate term of pregnant people/person. @DffrntDrmmr
@Imsleepy You are. You are triggered by the truthful, natural and appropriate term of "pregnant woman" which is commonly used by the majority of people and always has been.
Imsleepy · 31-35
The appropriate term is pregnant person. I mean, maybe if someone were ignorant and conflated gender and sex they could argue from your position, but that would be embarrassing because that person would be objectively wrong. @DffrntDrmmr
SW-User
@DffrntDrmmr I wouldn't even entertain it, because it is very stupid.

Maybe it is a troll as well.
@Imsleepy The appropriate term is "pregnant woman." I mean, only someone self-deluded would argue that men get pregnant. It's undeniable that women get pregnant and men do not. That's how nature designed it and is simple reality. That's been known for eons — yet somehow you're in denial.

That men do not get pregnant but women do is objective fact. A person play-pretending otherwise as an adult would be embarrassing. Don't be that person.
Imsleepy · 31-35
I mean, again, you’re objectively wrong. You’re still conflating sex and gender. I literally just pointed out your mistake. So, one would assume that you are choosing to be this ignorant. If you want to be exclusionary just because you hate trans people, you can use the term biological female. Though, no trans person argues that point anyway. @DffrntDrmmr
@Imsleepy You are irrationally denying truth and reality. There is no mistake about it — women get pregnant and men do not.

Now you're launching into lies. Shame on you. I've said nothing that is hateful, so stop that crap now.

You choose to play-pretend rather than deal with reality. That makes you a fool... and still wrong.

Read some biology.
Imsleepy · 31-35
You haven’t said anything that is true. You continue to conflate sex and gender after your mistake has been pointed out, twice. I guess it isn’t an act. You’re actually that stupid. @DffrntDrmmr
SW-User
@Imsleepy You don't get pregnant because of your gender, you get pregnant because of your sex. It is accurate to say that only a woman can get pregnant.
Imsleepy · 31-35
Woman is a gender. @SW-User
@Imsleepy Everything I've said is true. Everything I've said is supported by science, nature, fact, reason and basic common sense.

NOTHING you've said is supported by science, nature, fact, reason or common sense.

You have offered no valid argument whatsoever — just a devious mind and that you'll lie when disproven.

Your thinking is more than irrational — it's nonsense and absurd. I've gave you more attention than I should have. You're just a silly person.
Imsleepy · 31-35
I mean, if I must hold your hand..
You claimed that “pregnant woman” was the appropriate term. It isn’t the correct term because trans men and non binary people exist. Thus making pregnant person the appropriate term. If you want to argue from the biological stance, (which I gave you the chance to, yet you doubled down on your ignorance) you’d still not use “pregnant woman” because woman is a gender not a sex. You’d use biological female, as I stated. Which, you would only be doing to be intentionally exclusionary to trans and non binary people, for whatever bigoted reason you have. @DffrntDrmmr
@Imsleepy Repeating your anti-science nonsense does not make it credible. I already told you I've wasted enough time with your silliness. Desperation is not an admirable quality. Retain some dignity.
Imsleepy · 31-35
Point out anything anti-science that I have stated. Your ignorance is fucking astounding. You are truly one of the most ignorant people I’ve ever encountered. @DffrntDrmmr
wildbill83 · 41-45, M
@Imsleepy Minorities... first they complain because they're treated differently; and when they're treated the same, they complain because they're not treated differently...
Imsleepy · 31-35
wildbill83 · 41-45, M
@Imsleepy funny how someone spouting rhetoric about "inclusive language" is the first to resort to petty insults... 🤔
Imsleepy · 31-35
Who implied that I wanted to include fragile racist republicans in anything? @wildbill83
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@wildbill83 I'm fairly certain that @Imsleepy is mentally ill lol. There is no way someone can say things that absurd, and not be insane.
Imsleepy · 31-35
I welcome anyone to actually refute what I’ve said. You, nor anyone doing so already, leads me to believe that you can’t. @SW-User