CNN Health has an article up today titled “The case for saying ‘pregnant people’ and other gender-inclusive phrases.” This is not an opinion piece but a news article but it reads like a piece of propaganda.
The use of phrases such as “pregnant people” or “penis owners” in cultural or political discourse is sometimes met with confusion, or even anger.
Why use these terms when, as some people ask, “only women can get pregnant” or when “only men have penises?”
If you’ve already guessed that things get worse from here, you’re right. Things get worse when the article attempts to define sex as something assigned at brith.
A person’s sex is what they were assigned at birth based on biological characteristics of maleness or femaleness as indicated by chromosomes, gonads, hormones and genitals.
The inclusion of the phrase “assigned at birth” makes it sound like this is…
