Young Turks Host Faces Backlash For Criticism Of ‘Trans Inclusive’ Terms For Women
Ana Kasparian, a progressive host at The Young Turks, criticized “trans-inclusive” language for women like “birthing person,” or “person who menstruates” calling the terms “degrading” to women.
“I’m a woman. Please don’t ever refer to me as a person with a uterus, birthing person, or person who menstruates. How do people not realize how degrading this is? You can support the transgender community without doing this sh**.”
Kasparian’s sensible take on the subject triggered a full-blown meltdown from the online community. The comments she received on Twitter alone were called a “lib lunatic asylum” by a number of conservatives.
“Unblocking you to tell you you’re a piece of sh** for joining this transphobic mass hysteria while being silent about anti-trans legislation. How does a VERY SMALL niche of people using terms like birthing person to include trans men and non-binary ppl invalidate YOU? Get a GRIP!” one user wrote.
“I prefer my feminism to include everyone. My womanhood isn’t threatened by the existence of non binary or trans people. Why is yours?” another said. Another user responded, “What’s a cis White birther like you doing thinking you still have a place on the oppression totem pole? You’re an oppressor, own your responsibility and privilege.”
In recent years, nongendered terms have taken over the English language in an effort to rewrite other languages with incoherent terms like “Latinx.” The CDC, for example, quietly removed the word “woman” from its web pages and replaced it with “pregnant people.”
Last year, The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine created a “language guide” for U.S. hospitals to use when referring to transgender-identifying patients who recently gave birth (women). Numerous hospitals use non-gendered whenever possible and, when necessary, will use specific anatomical features to describe a person’s sex rather than the simplified versions, “male” or “female.” Other medical institutions, such as the well-known Cleaveland Clinic, will refer to women as “people assigned female at birth (AFAB).”
The complete overhaul of the English language to please a small percentage of Americans is something to be justifiably frustrated by. The terms not only degrades women to their anatomical features, but they make the English language cold and clinical. Most importantly, they ignore simple truths and realities about the world around us.
