Erasing our identity is an insult to women

THE British Medical Association’s recommendation for doctors to avoid the phrase ‘expectant mothers’ is just the latest assault on womanhood by the transgender lobby.

The BMA is one of the many institutions now fearful of acknowledging the realities of the biological differences between the sexes, at the risk of offending transgender people.

Trans-activists are enjoying huge success in their campaign to re- invent our language so that every aspect our lives becomes ‘gender neutral’ – from pregnancy down to lavatory habits. As this newspaper reported last weekend, Girlguiding now describes itself as a ‘single gender’ body. In America, the term ‘chest feeding’ is gaining cachet as an alternative to breastfeeding for women who have babies before transitioning.

Midwives in the US are also being directed to use terms such as ‘front-hole’ instead of vagina, and ‘window-birth’ rather than caesarean section, in case transpeople are offended. And it is only a matter of time before these linguistic trends find their way across the Atlantic.

At the same time, significant amounts of money are being spent by our institutions to avoid being accused of transphobia, while services supporting women and children escaping domestic violence are cut to the bone.

The National Union of Students, for example, is employing a fulltime transgender officer on a salary that is likely to be in excess of £20,000. It is no wonder that so many women are angry and upset about the erasure of their identities to the point where they are being told it is transphobic to even use the correct language to describe our reproductive systems.

Accusing us of bigotry for telling the truth is a new way of attacking the advancement of women – only this time those doing the attacking are being supported by the very organisations that should know better.