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Don’t Say ‘Mothers’ – It Offends Transgender People, Doctors Told
Breitbart ^ | 01/29/2017 | Virginia Hale

Posted on 01/29/2017 1:02:13 PM PST by Silentgypsy

Doctors have been told to refer to expectant mothers as “pregnant people” so as not to offend transgender people, in official guidelines issued by the British Medical Association (BMA).

The controversial advice appears in a 14-page booklet on “inclusive language in the workplace” which also rules that the terms ‘biologically male’ and ‘biologically female’ are problematic, and instructs doctors to instead say that the individual was ‘assigned’ male or female at birth.

The union’s new guidelines come just weeks after it emerged that a British woman in the process of ‘transitioning’ gender put her operation on hold to have a baby, the Mail on Sunday reports.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bravenewworld; doctors; husxleywasright; mothers; transgender
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To: Silentgypsy

Turns out the trannies were offended by the pink pussyhats.
LOL. Check out this article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4150174/Activists-claim-women-s-marches-isolated-trans-community.html


41 posted on 01/29/2017 3:38:51 PM PST by mumblypeg (Make America Macho Again.)
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To: jsanders2001

You cannot say Mother as a name of respect for your mom. But there no moratorium on the term “Mother F____er...........that is to say.....Mother fletcher. If you say mother fletcher in normal conversation it is quiet disarming.


42 posted on 01/29/2017 5:12:15 PM PST by Texas Songwriter (proawaki)
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

Entertaining!


43 posted on 01/29/2017 7:35:42 PM PST by Silentgypsy (Mind your atomic bonds.)
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To: mumblypeg

Thanks for the link!


44 posted on 01/29/2017 7:41:17 PM PST by Silentgypsy (Mind your atomic bonds.)
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