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Re:Teenager on TikTok Disrupted Thousands of Scientific Stud... by ASalazarMX on Friday September 24, 2021 @11:30AM (#28643766)
Wouldn't it be detrimental if the topic was sex? you'd have to specify "female-identifying people born with a vagina".

I'm not kidding, recently I read advice for lube for "people born with a vagina".

Sex is not gender, it's detrimental for communication to mix the two.

Re:Teenager on TikTok Disrupted Thousands of Scientific Stud... by everybodyknows on Friday September 24, 2021 @12:54PM (#28644949)
Related, from recent news: It’s now possible to read articles of several hundred words length on abortion without finding a single instance of the words “woman” or “women”.

“… before many people know that they are pregnant.”

“… pregnant patients …”

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/09/texas-abortion-ban-f...

Re:Teenager on TikTok Disrupted Thousands of Scientific Stud... by corobo on Friday September 24, 2021 @11:40AM (#28643918)
Two people have said it is detrimental to communication so far yet nobody has requested any form of clarification on what I said

If anything my frequent lack of punctuation needs correcting first, that has caused infinitely more confusion. Weirdly in 20 years of forum use I've never had anyone start a discussion about it.. :)

Re:Teenager on TikTok Disrupted Thousands of Scientific Stud... by ASalazarMX on Friday September 24, 2021 @02:29PM (#28646118)
Just as with punctuation, the intended meaning is clear within context. I knew the article was about women, but reading "female-identifying people" made me do a double take.

I don't question trans women were included too, but your phrasing made me doubt if this Tiktoker's audience was mainly trans women.