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Doctors have been told to refer to expectant mothers as âpregnant peopleâ 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 âinclusive language in the workplaceâ which also rules that the terms âbiologically maleâ and âbiologically femaleâ are problematic, and instructs doctors to instead say that the individual was âassignedâ male or female at birth.
The unionâs new guidelines come just weeks after it emerged that a British woman in the process of âtransitioningâ gender put her operation on hold to have a baby, the Mail on Sunday reports.
775,000 women give birth in Britain each year, yet there are no other known cases of people in the process of âtransitionâ becoming pregnant.
Despite this, the BMA demands the word âmothersâ be dropped from doctorsâ vocabularies in relation to pregnancy because itâs offensive to transgender people, and in order to âcelebrate diversityâ.
The booklet states: âA large majority of people that have been pregnant or have given birth identify as women. However, there are some intersex men and trans men who may get pregnant.
âWe can include intersex men and trans men who may get pregnant by saying âpregnant peopleâ instead of âexpectant mothers.â
Don't Say 'Mothers' - It Offends Transgender People, Doctors Told
The controversial advice appears in a 14-page booklet on âinclusive language in the workplaceâ which also rules that the terms âbiologically maleâ and âbiologically femaleâ are problematic, and instructs doctors to instead say that the individual was âassignedâ male or female at birth.
The unionâs new guidelines come just weeks after it emerged that a British woman in the process of âtransitioningâ gender put her operation on hold to have a baby, the Mail on Sunday reports.
775,000 women give birth in Britain each year, yet there are no other known cases of people in the process of âtransitionâ becoming pregnant.
Despite this, the BMA demands the word âmothersâ be dropped from doctorsâ vocabularies in relation to pregnancy because itâs offensive to transgender people, and in order to âcelebrate diversityâ.
The booklet states: âA large majority of people that have been pregnant or have given birth identify as women. However, there are some intersex men and trans men who may get pregnant.
âWe can include intersex men and trans men who may get pregnant by saying âpregnant peopleâ instead of âexpectant mothers.â
Don't Say 'Mothers' - It Offends Transgender People, Doctors Told
