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Hospital staff complain ‘Maternity Center’ not gender inclusive enough for ‘birthing people’
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Posted on 03/24/2022 8:36:07 AM PDT by algore

The Evergreen Health Medical Center in Kirkland may change the name of its Family Maternity Center. Some staff claim “maternity” is not gender-inclusive enough for “birthing people” who do not identify as women.

According to a memo obtained by the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH, some claim the Family Maternity Center “does not emanate inclusivity.” They argue that “all types of people give birth.” Consequently, the staff at the center are engaged in meetings to come up with a new, more inclusive name.

The memo announcing the name change idea was sent by four EvergreenHealth leaders. They explained that staff members and patients reached out with concern that the Family Maternity Center was too centered on women. This needed to change.

“It has come to Leadership’s attention from both staff and patients that our name, Family Maternity Center, does not emanate inclusivity. All types of people give birth,” the memo claims. “People who identify as women give birth. People who identify outside the gender binary give birth. People with non-traditional family structures give birth. Not all our birthing patients identify as moms or with maternity care. The healthcare system in general and reproductive health in particular have a long way to go to become truly inclusive of all this variety. How exciting that Evergreen’s core vision is to create an inclusive community health system!”

The meeting featured one of the memo’s authors, RN Jacquiline Blanco, taking a leading role. She called the meeting a “brave face conversation,” which she said is the new term for “safe space.”

According to Blanco’s LinkedIn profile, her goal is to “empower womxn, girls, birthing persons, female-identifying and non-binary folks through the provision of holistic and compassionate women’s healthcare.” It came as little shock when she pushed for the name change.

“I also want to just establish that I really strongly believe changing a name to gender-inclusive language really does affirm our commitment to the care of the whole family and inclusive language can really support practices of awareness to the needs of all families, which are extremely varied,” Blanco said.

One staff member claimed more than just women give birth.

“I think a suggestion can be Evergreen Family Birth Center. I do have a hard time with the maternity name as the Family Maternity Center. And again, not taking away from people who feel that women only have this magical superpower of giving birth. I feel that all types of people have this superpower. And I don’t think that these people, who are also referred to as ‘birthing people,’ should feel less than.”


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KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; kirkland; washington
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To: DallasBiff; brownsfan; Red Badger

This nonbinary blurring the lines between men and women is pure evil and straight out of hell IMO....and I mean that literally.

One of satans greatest weapons is confusion.


41 posted on 03/24/2022 9:10:50 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: algore

The slippery slope started in ‘73 (?) when the American Psychiatric Association (APA) removed Homosexuality as a Mental Disorder from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III).


42 posted on 03/24/2022 9:11:03 AM PDT by Joe Marine 76 ("Honor is a gift a man gives to himself." - Rob Roy MacGregor)
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To: algore
I don't see the Babylon Bee header.....
If you're dumb enough to be born at this place....you're gonna end up really SICK!
If you're born with a dick ..you're NOT a chick!
43 posted on 03/24/2022 9:11:36 AM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
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To: Dilbert San Diego

This would be a good question for Judge Brown/Jackson. We could ask her if women give birth? I wonder how she would answer such a question.

As she can’t even answer what a woman is, this is sort of the next level up question.


44 posted on 03/24/2022 9:12:48 AM PDT by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer)
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To: Dilbert San Diego; sjmjax

Please see my post #41


45 posted on 03/24/2022 9:13:30 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: jaydubya2
It's hard for supreme court nominees to understand that too.

It used to be called the "birds and the bees", but I guess that term has been canceled.

46 posted on 03/24/2022 9:17:58 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Lautenberg The Forefather of "The Nanny State!")
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To: algore

Two kinds of people in this world:

1. Those who know what a “womxn” is.

2. Those who don’t and don’t care to.


47 posted on 03/24/2022 9:18:11 AM PDT by Iowa Slim
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To: algore
The Evergreen Health Medical Center in Kirkland may change the name of its Family Maternity Center. Some staff claim “maternity” is not gender-inclusive enough for “birthing people” who do not identify as women.
If my wife was pregnant I’d certainly scratch this place off my list. They are obviously not qualified.
48 posted on 03/24/2022 9:18:11 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: V_TWIN

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”


49 posted on 03/24/2022 9:20:21 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: algore; John Semmens

John, is this you?


50 posted on 03/24/2022 9:22:20 AM PDT by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: algore

Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop? The leftists are taking it as a challenge.


51 posted on 03/24/2022 9:25:07 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: algore

52 posted on 03/24/2022 9:26:18 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: algore

Mamas, don’t let yer babies get born at this joint...


53 posted on 03/24/2022 9:35:01 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: algore

Now that the left had destroyed motherhood, how will they destroy apple pie on their quest to destroy America?


54 posted on 03/24/2022 9:38:12 AM PDT by absinthe (I don't eat liver. That much ketchup isn't good for you.)
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To: Little Ray

Kirkland is just to the east of Seattle. So yeah.


55 posted on 03/24/2022 9:46:32 AM PDT by ConjunctionJunction (Vim vi repellere licet)
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To: GOPJ

They need be dead on the outside too. These wackos are destroying the US.


56 posted on 03/24/2022 9:49:11 AM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: Tennessee Nana

Prostate = Man

No prostate = Woman


57 posted on 03/24/2022 9:50:25 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: algore

LOL, ROFLMAO!

These people are so sick in the head, LOL

Seattle, Washington


58 posted on 03/24/2022 9:59:42 AM PDT by jdirt
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To: dfwgator
Absurdist humor ----> satire on current society ----> thought time for displaying or even laughing at it

We are well into stage two and crossing into stage three for Monty Python's Loretta joke.

59 posted on 03/24/2022 10:07:14 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of the Devil...-Churchill)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

What about the Adams Apple ???


60 posted on 03/24/2022 10:31:48 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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