Midwives Can’t Say ‘Pregnant Women’, Must Say ‘Birthing Individuals’ To Avoid Offend Breastfeeding Trans Dad

by Liam Deacon29 Sep 20151,687

Last year, the Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA) conducted a politically correct purge of their guidelines, removing any reference to fact that mothers are women, for fear of offending the transgendered. But now, an alliance of midwifes, mothers and experts have began to fight back, insisting that it is “dangerous” and “harmful” to deny the “biological reality” of motherhood.

In 2014, with little consultation, MANA decided that being a woman was not a necessary or relevant factor for being a mother. They edited their core competencies document, and in effect ordered practitioners to stop referring to clients as “women” and “mothers” demanding they say “pregnant people” and “birthing individuals” instead.

The change did not go unnoticed. At the end of last month a group calling themselves “Woman-Centred Midwifery” (WCM) published an open letter addressed to MANA, signed by hundreds of respected Midwifery experts including the revered “mother of authentic midwifery” Ina May Gaskin.

They wrote, very politely, that: “MANA’s attempts at inclusivity are commendable in today’s complex world. We are concerned, however, by accelerating trends in our culture to deny material biological reality and further disconnect ourselves from nature and the body.”

Referring to the edited core competencies document, they protested that, “women are now all but missing from the language, as if we can separate woman from mother from baby. Woman is recognized now only in relation to her baby. This is harmful to female adult humans; we women have fought long and hard to be recognized as autonomous beings.”

The MANA case is not an isolated one. The American College of Nurse-Midwives also began to recognise “transsexual” and “gender variant” mothers in 2013. However, they are yet to bow to the perpetually offended by following MANA’s lead in denying the right of non-transgendered mothers to be recognised as women.

Thank you Ed. I am not sure. But, my computer seems to be blocking me from copying and pasting. Not sure why.

Why do we have to change OUR language to suit them?

I won't change mine.

ed11563 wrote:

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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

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Thank you Ed. I am not sure. But, my computer seems to be blocking me from copying and pasting. Not sure why.

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Blame it on Microsoft, they usually screw things up (imho)

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Yeah, but I don't know how to fix it. My computer "updated" so now it changed the look and it is annoying. And, I supposedly have the pop up ads blocked but still they pop up. And, the pages now load slower than before. Grrr....

Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

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ed11563 wrote:

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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

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Thank you Ed. I am not sure. But, my computer seems to be blocking me from copying and pasting. Not sure why.

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Blame it on Microsoft, they usually screw things up (imho)

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Yeah, but I don't know how to fix it. My computer "updated" so now it changed the look and it is annoying. And, I supposedly have the pop up ads blocked but still they pop up. And, the pages now load slower than before. Grrr....

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If you have backup software installed, you might have an option.

First, copy ALL of your "My Documents" files onto an external hard drive or a large capacity flash drive.

Then have your backup software RESTORE to a time before the "updates" were installed.

I've done this (long ago), it can be painful.

 

BWAHAHAHAHA

Yeah, right..

(where is my tilted head puppy look emoticon?)

What a load of bs.