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Libfems are very adamant on this, and you see it during abortion debates. "It's not just women who get pregnant, you pedophile" was what Danielle Jones, YouTube gynaecologist, told a random person when he was telling her only women menstruate or get pregnant. They do this because it's an emotionally effective tactic, and puts you on the defensive. Girls, being female, of course can get pregnant, and they get pregnant by the boys or men who produce sperm.
Little late but just want to point out the libfem rebuttal to this is to be smug as fuck and respond that using complex language is discriminatory against ESL and low income/low education individuals. Due to natural linguistic barriers, these groups are likely not familiar with internal medical terminology and it is not appropriate to broadly communicate medical information at a clinical-knowledge level to patients as it further marginalizes underserved groups. People who have the knowledge and ability to grasp medical terminology are responsible for communicating to their practitioners how they would like to be addressed, but broad messaging must remain approachable for low education/ESL women.
The argument to rebut “pregnant people” vs “pregnant women” is that all communication must be contextualized as much as possible in as few words as possible in order to bridge language gaps. An ESL woman might not know the word pregnant and have trouble contextualizing it against people (men??) but most people learn gender nouns pretty early so “word I’m not familiar with + woman” cues that it is related to biological sex and there is a better chance of everything “clicking” from there.
Anyways, regardless of whether you agree with the drivel above, you get to win the social justice warrior contest and strut around telling the pooners how insufficiently woke they are.
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