S.R.
2 min readDec 8, 2023

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I gave birth a year ago, my partner is a trans woman we live in an area where everyone is very inclusive and uses inclusive language. People were especially sensitive around us since my partner was trans.
At no point did anyone refer to me as a womb carrier, a person who menstruates, or any of these other weird terms. I was referred to as a mother, a woman, and pregnant. These terms are not really being used, and honestly trans women don’t really care about them.
People who menstruate is a term used for trans men who are not comfortable being called women. Absolutely no one is saying we can’t call women, women. If a trans man or non binary is getting care around his periods, and he doesn’t want to be called a woman, that term is used. In no way are doctors tell women we can’t be called women when getting care around periods. There’s just also a term for trans men and sometimes it’s used to include them. Don’t blame trans women for this, they literally have nothing to do with such scenarios, other than maybe trying to support their trans brothers by being inclusive. None of these terms are for them, they’re for trans men and nonbinary people.

The only term that was used with my partner, was non-gestational mother. Meaning she was considered a mother, but wasn’t pregnant. She used that term when referring to herself in a lesbian support group around having a child she wasn’t biologically related too. No one else ever used these weird terms. I don’t know what their weird tweet was about, but no one is erasing the term woman.

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S.R.
S.R.

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Cheese Enthusiast. Fat and Feminist. I can’t help but write. Trying to learn as much as I can.

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