I don't want to be identified by what body parts I have or don't have.

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217. I absolutely am not saying that.

There are at least five examples in this thread alone of me saying "call yourself whatever you want to call yourself when you are the only people being talked about".

If you want to post an actual example of an actual trans organisation that actually wants to replace "women" with "people with a uterus" or something else that identifies women by their body parts alone then by all means let's continue this discussion. 206 posts in I haven't seen it yet. In my view, it's a strawman created by transphobic organisations looking for wedge issues on the left.

I don't care how many terms we use, I just care that they are accurate and that they include people who are not cis women when that is relevant in context.

I'm sorry that you feel erased if "women" is substituted by "people". At least "women" is a subset of "people". I feel marginalised by being shoved into "other people" or completely forgotten about at all (which, let's be honest is what happens 99.9% of the time). Do you have a medically accurate and inclusive alternative to "pregnant people" that isn't an entire sentence in its own right? Would love to hear it.

Because what I'm hearing is "99% of people who get pregnant are women, therefore we have the right to use a term that erases the other 1%". And that's a pretty shitty and disappointing attitude to be hearing from "progressives".

And don't come back with "pregnant women and other people". That is literally "othering" people.