Harvard Medical School Tweet Refers to Women as ‘Birthing People’
“We understand the reactions to this terminology and in no way meant for it to erase or dehumanize women.”
I keep saying that woke culture is coming to the hard sciences. I was wrong. It’s already here.
How else do you explain this?
Globally, ethnic minority pregnant and birthing people suffer worse outcomes and experiences during and after pregnancy and childbirth. These inequities have been further highlighted by #COVID19. Watch this panel discussion on #MaternalJustice. https://t.co/RcflQQapQo pic.twitter.com/N5m2s2SRdi
— Harvard Med Postgraduate and Continuing Education (@HMSPostgradCE) November 8, 2020
The webinar panelists used the term "birthing person" to include those who identify as non-binary or transgender because not all who give birth identify as "women" or "girls." We understand the reactions to this terminology and in no way meant for it to erase or dehumanize women.
— Harvard Med Postgraduate and Continuing Education (@HMSPostgradCE) November 9, 2020
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Comments
Shouldn’t it be “birthing units”?
“Birthing people” implies that women can have children and other people can’t, so it’s sexist, exclusionary, and species-ist.
I leave it as an exercise for someone to figure out how it’s also racist. Everything is racist, so this must be, too.
I just read one of the tweets again. It is racist. Why? Because they keep talking about minorities.
Kann den scheiß nicht erfinden.
It’s about time. So can we finally now refer to LGBTQ activists as Village People?
“We understand the reactions to this terminology and in no way meant for it to erase or dehumanize women.”
Memo for Harvard: Yeah, but you’re still doing it. What a delightfully National Socialist way of viewing human beings.