[lbo-talk] Re: "Why I no longer hate Trans Exclusionary Feminists (TERFs’)"

[Eric Romsted]

Saying MANA will no longer refer to pregnant women is perhaps over-broad but they have removed many references to women in their documents.  Compare current Core Competencies with a few years ago in wayback machine.

http://mana.org/about-us/core-competencies

vs

https://web.archive.org/web/20140102032121/http://mana.org/about-us/core-competencies

Example-
"Women have within themselves the innate biological wisdom to give birth."

has been changed to

"The biological wisdom to give birth is innate, it has been held throughout time, and is experienced across cultures by all pregnant people."

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> On May 26, 2016, at 10:33 AM, Wendy Lyon <wendy.lyon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 26 May 2016 at 15:22, Charles Brown <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Some trans activists are even claiming it is “cissexist” or “transmisogynist” just to refer to pregnant women as women. The Midwives Association of North America (MANA) will no longer use the term “pregnant woman” because they have been informed this is transphobic.
>> 
>> CB: this is goddamn outrageous.
> 
> And it took me almost three seconds to find out it isn't true.
> http://mana.org/
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