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Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature by bradleyjg on Saturday November 19, 2022 @05:53PM (#33675763)
I support the writer's hurt feeling but you can't justify not accomodating people because it requires looking at words differently.

You can. This is feelings all the way down. Specifically whose feelings are going to be accommodated.

Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature by JBits on Saturday November 19, 2022 @06:35PM (#33676189)
Accomodation to receive good medical treatment is more important than accomodating feelings about words.
Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature by bradleyjg on Saturday November 19, 2022 @06:58PM (#33676407)
Those things don’t trade off against each other. What trades off is accommodating some people’s feelings about words vs accommodating other people’s feelings about words. Since these different feelings are about the same words both sets of feelings can’t be accommodated. When we as a society make our choice between two incompatible options we express our values.
Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature by jimbokun on Saturday November 19, 2022 @07:09PM (#33676524)
Yes, why it is important to use clear words referring to biological sex, as that has far more important ramifications for medical treatment than gender identity.
Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature by JBits on Saturday November 19, 2022 @07:38PM (#33676753)
I'm not sure what the best words to use are, as if many cis women find these gender neutral terms offensive, they have a right to complain and push back. However, trans men have a right not to be ignored, for their view in what they're called to be taken into account by the medical literature and for their existence to be reflected in the medical literature.
Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature by LawTalkingGuy on Sunday November 20, 2022 @12:48PM (#33683248)
Feelings vs Fatalities

When men are allowed into women's spaces - washrooms, rape shelters, and prisons - women and children die.

We have single-sex spaces for a lot of very good reasons.