The case for saying ‘pregnant people’
and other gender-inclusive phrases
CNN,
by
Kristen Rogers
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
5/7/2024 11:38:31 AM
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?”
Those people and institutions using gender-neutral language aim to be cognizant of the fact that sex doesn’t always align with gender identity, said psychiatrist Dr. Jack Drescher, past president of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry and clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University in New York City. And it’s the most inclusive, streamlined way to refer to everyone who, regardless of their gender identity,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
rockeysroomie 5/7/2024 11:40:45 AM (No. 1713678)
Dr. Jack Drescher (past president of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry and clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University in New York City): This guy is one delusional dude..
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Having chosen to segregate gender from sex, and to redefine certain words as referring to the gender of the individual rather than the sex of the individual, they find that they now need new words to identify those things which are specific to people of one sex or the other. The idea that perhaps redefining those words was a mistake never enters their minds.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Northcross 5/7/2024 11:48:32 AM (No. 1713686)
There is no case for saying "pregnant people" because no man in the history of the world has ever gotten pregnant.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Msquared112 5/7/2024 11:49:17 AM (No. 1713687)
This isn't hard: Except in extremely rare anomalous medical deviations....
TRUE: Only women can get pregnant, menstruate, and nurse with real breast milk.
TRUE: Only men have penises and only women have ovaries and uteri.
TRUE: One's sex is determined by the genitalia and chromosomes with which one is born.
TRUE: "Gender identity" is a new term coined by the delusional for the irrational.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 5/7/2024 11:59:29 AM (No. 1713693)
Dreshler needs a shrink. Faced with the hard science of biology, he wants to further the fantasy world by revising words. I don’t need a degree in psych to recognize he needs help
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bpl40 5/7/2024 11:59:32 AM (No. 1713694)
Sex is biological. Gender belongs strictly in a book of grammar. To pretend otherwise is as close to insanity as you can get without being committed!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 5/7/2024 12:00:42 PM (No. 1713695)
There is no SANE case to be made. Only the mentally ill would even imagine these obvious errors, frauds, impossibilities...whatever.
This is a mental health problem, not a semantics problem. The language is FINE, some of the people are crazy as hell.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
farmwife 5/7/2024 12:05:29 PM (No. 1713698)
Whenever I hear these twisted linguistic phases, I laugh. They are ridiculous and everybody knows it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Axeman 5/7/2024 12:11:19 PM (No. 1713705)
We already have perfectly applicable words to label organisms with defined biological sexual traits.
The two main ones are Male and Female. There are other less common ones but extremely rare in most mammals, which includes humans.
So "men" and "women" can always be called "male" and "female" correctly, in spite of what they want to call themselves based on what they think at any one time. An autopsy would reveal the truth. True facts are true facts whatever else we want to believe.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MsMontana 5/7/2024 12:11:59 PM (No. 1713706)
Blah blah blah.
You are either male or female and you don't get to choose.
The End
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 5/7/2024 12:13:25 PM (No. 1713709)
Another Commie profesoar at Commie University.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Sardonic 5/7/2024 12:17:05 PM (No. 1713710)
Geez
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Noj15 5/7/2024 12:19:17 PM (No. 1713712)
Do you know why God put you in the world?
To propagate the species, dummy. To propagate the species.
Just like every other living thing on this planet.
All of this distraction is for their benefit.
Propagate (make babies, for you stupid Columbia grads).
Only a MAN and a WOMAN can propagate our species.
Next...
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
MarkTwain 5/7/2024 12:34:00 PM (No. 1713720)
This article makes the case for never ever reading or watching anything from CNN. Turn them off. Eventually they will be forced to change their ways (yeah, right) or fade away into well earned obscurity.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
red1066 5/7/2024 12:39:50 PM (No. 1713724)
This may have all started with the stupid insistence of woke idiots that men have to say we're pregnant when a couple is expecting. Men aren't expecting. The women is.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
nwcudagal 5/7/2024 12:45:31 PM (No. 1713729)
So glad the animal kingdom hasn't jumped on this bandwagon.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
SALady 5/7/2024 12:53:54 PM (No. 1713735)
I miss the good old days, when we locked up seriously mentally ill people for their protection and to get them their much-needed treatments, instead of pandering to them and putting them on presidential cabinets!!!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Venturer 5/7/2024 12:57:46 PM (No. 1713737)
This is the SCIENCE Democrats want us to follow.
Science led by fruitcakes like this educated nut job/
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 5/7/2024 2:00:02 PM (No. 1713779)
These are the most evil, sick, twisted beings on the planet right now. Men are men. Women are women. Gender is not a construct.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Rama41 5/7/2024 2:03:29 PM (No. 1713783)
And Title 9 now mandates what pronouns are acceptable. That's called compelled speech, a clear violation of the First Amendment.
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Uhhh..... no thanks, I'll continue to say "pregnant women." It's true, only men have penises, and only women can get pregnant. Be precise in your language.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Luandir 5/7/2024 2:16:56 PM (No. 1713791)
...in your general direction!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
CivilServant 5/7/2024 2:48:54 PM (No. 1713817)
“Inclusive, streamlined..”
Well, that settles it….Esperanto for all, for inclusivity and streamlining.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 5/7/2024 2:52:53 PM (No. 1713819)
"Penis owners"...... I know a lot of women that are 'penis owners'.... Oh, they may still be attached to their boyfriends or husbands, but the women definitely own them and keep them on a short leash.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
FormerDem 5/7/2024 3:16:21 PM (No. 1713824)
No.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
varkdriver 5/7/2024 3:18:51 PM (No. 1713828)
#24: I don't consider myself a penis "owner", I am merely leasing with an option to buy.
(humor: I am a male person, and I really liked your take on the 'ownership' question!)
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 5/7/2024 3:34:37 PM (No. 1713843)
For of all sex is NOT assigned at birth, it's assigned at conception.
Second, The science is settled, no matter what drugs you take, what you cut off or have sewn on, you cannot change your sex. If you believe otherwise, you are a science denier.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/7/2024 4:41:30 PM (No. 1713873)
With all respect to OP, this is a junk article about a junk shrink. Draws almost as many Replies as cannibals, though...
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
paral04 5/7/2024 4:44:01 PM (No. 1713876)
What happened to classes on basic Biology? If memory from those days of yore when people were relatively intelligent, people who got pregnant were called women or females and those who had penises were called men or males. This guy went to Med School to become a psychiatrist, was he out taking pot or something when this was covered there?
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
franq 5/7/2024 4:47:45 PM (No. 1713879)
This author "ain't right in the head "
Lord have mercy.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 5/7/2024 5:14:41 PM (No. 1713887)
"How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg?
Four.
Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg"
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
JimBob 5/7/2024 5:29:31 PM (No. 1713890)
By using the tortured language of the Left in a discussion with the Left, you are conceding the point before you start. The first example that comes to mind is 'gender-affirming care' which to the Left means genital mutilation, often of confused or mentally ill young people.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
privateer 5/7/2024 5:43:31 PM (No. 1713894)
Keerect, Abe!
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
jasmine 5/7/2024 5:45:59 PM (No. 1713895)
Sex can be tested for and proven with biological markers. Sex is science based. Sex is what the original law protecting female athletes was based upon. No discrimination due to or on account of sex.
Gender is a social construct that is not to be questioned. It puts males on the fast track to girls sports teams and locker rooms without regard for the needs or fairness to females. It also has a profit making element, in that operations to remove or modify sexual organs in minors are called, "gender affirming care" despite the goal being to remake their organs resemble organs of the sex they were NOT "assigned."
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
padiva 5/7/2024 8:25:42 PM (No. 1713933)
So if some of these people get pregnant while taking weird prescriptions, in a few decades there will be a subset of society who are Frankenbabies.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
ironchefw 5/7/2024 10:10:18 PM (No. 1713976)
The people pushing this stuff (can Columbia sink any lower?) know that there is a whole herd of weirdos ready to make new demands to be accepted as a cat, dog, a rabbit and more with appropriate pronouns right after we give in and say a man with a beard is a woman with a penis.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
LadyHen 5/7/2024 10:40:34 PM (No. 1713990)
THAT kid from Kindergarten Cop knows better.
Every time these blithered empty headed fools start chattering I just think of THAT kid.
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