Erasure of Women in Language
We lost the right to refer to female people as women or girls, and to define women or girls as female. The right to talk about female biology without being compelled to change terminology to include male-bodied people, or women identifying as males wanting biological realities like pregnancy or menstruation to be disassociated from the female sex.
With the trans lobbies diversity & inclusion audits in all Federal, State and Local governments we are losing the right to refuse the erasure of female specific language in media and all public discourse.
Trans Gender Diverse (TGD) policies are pushing for women to be called 'cis women' a subset of our own class or reduced to functions or body part owners. i.e. menstruators, cervix-havers, birthing people etc.
Australians are unaware that the Prime Minister’s Office of the Federal Government along with State and local governments have signed up to a compliance audit that directs their policies in line with gender identity or trans ideology. The audit is called 'the Australian Workplace Equality Index'. It's a checklist. On that checklist they need to remove gendered language throughout your documentation, forms, around speech, clothing and IT systems. And promote that practice to their third party suppliers, vendors or subordinates organisations.
In AWEI these are points13, 16, 17 and 24.
There is a spill over effect to all corporations and organisations influenced by federal, state and local government. The consequences this aspect of gender ideology is being embedded into Australian public life.
What Happens When 'Transwomen' Become 'Men' in Discourse
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Examples:
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In the Bonds Advert rather than women the phrase is support "People with Ovarian Crisis" https://archive.ph/xBKbr #Australia
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In motherhood and breast feeding services, gendered language is being erased.
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"Those birthing people - they’re women", by the Melbourne University political philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith in an O&G magazine edition on language in women’s health, the article was taken down within a day. #Victoria
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6 counselors are fired from Australian Breast Association for using the word 'mother'. Mum-of-three is 'sacked' from breastfeeding counsellor job for saying the word 'MOTHER' instead of 'parent' because of rise of transgender men breastfeeding their babies #Australia
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https://bit.ly/3FFgHvV New research has revealed a worrying issue with introducing terms like “pregnant people” and “lactating parents” to describe mothers. The use of inclusive language around motherhood and parenting is a “tactical move” to change societal views of gender, according to the Financial Review’s Aaron Patrick. “I think the people pushing this, tactically, this is … one of the tools they can use to change people’s views,” Mr Patrick said. #Australia
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Both Microsoft and Google are correcting or prompting 'gender inclusive' language
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Google rolls out inclusive language function
Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan says it’s time to “worry about the speech police,” with Google rolling out a new inclusive language function helping people avoid using politically incorrect words. #Australia
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Microsoft launches ‘woke’ editing tool which advises writers to type 'assigned female at birth' rather than 'biologically female':
Google had launched an ‘inclusive language’ function designed to avoid the use of politically incorrect words. Critics accused Microsoft of censoring language while contradicting the biological meaning of the words 'woman' or 'female'. #Australia
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There is "No longer a place for women in language"
“This is a profound cultural change being smuggled into language. We only need to look at the epic rise in gender dysphoria in children to see that these changes are not cost free.” #Australia
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‘ANU academics ask staff to drop ‘mother’ and ‘father’ in bid for gender inclusive education
Staff at the Australian National University have been asked by academics to stop using the word "mother" and instead replace it with "gestational parent” while adding "father" should be referred to as a “non-birthing parent”. #ACT
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Greens provoke outrage for erasing women in pregnancy
The NSW Greens have attempted to delete the word “woman” 23 times from new laws protecting unborn babies — sparking outrage at what has been described as a “campaign to erase” the gender. #Australia
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“Inclusive language risks, ‘dehumanising women’, top researchers state
Replacing words like “women” and “mothers” with terms like “birth-givers” and “pregnant people” in research risks dehumanising women and would harm decades of work to improve the visibility of women in medical literature. #Australia
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Hospital unit for mums renamed as ‘Parent and Baby’
Trans-inclusive push to remove the word ‘mother’ criticised at new hospital unit. A major hospital’s move to swap the word “mother” for “parent” to be inclusive for transgender and surrogate male fathers has been labelled “disturbing”. #NSW
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Birth-givers to pride jumpers: how progressive politics is going wrong
On the linguistic issue, the challenge of making society more affirming of people who do not identify with their birth sex has not seen the corresponding rise in terms such as “people with penises”, “sperm producers” or “upstanding urinators”. It is only women who are being erased and objectified in health literature in the name of progress. #Australia
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https://www.noconflicttheysaid.org/home/hashtags/FemaleErasure
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