Outrage Ensues After The UK Government Urges The UN To Replace The Phrase ‘Pregnant Women’ With ‘Pregnant People’

Every now and then, someone asks us why we “waste our time” writing about ridiculous stuff, like the dozens of gender options out there. I mean, who REALLY needs to know about that, right? It’s just a fringe, leftist thing. No one’s serious.

Yeah, OK. Tell that to California, the first state to legally recognize a third gender.

Liberals are writing and passing laws based on feelings. THAT’S why we write about it. This stuff matters.

Here’s another example.

According to this, the UK government is in a tizzy. You see, it’s proposing amendments to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and it has decided that the phrase “pregnant women” is outdated and pretty transphobic. Therefore, the treaty should use the term “pregnant people” instead.

The statement comes in Britain’s official submission on proposed amendments to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which the UK has been a signatory since 1976. The UN treaty says a “pregnant woman” must be protected, including not being subject to the death penalty.

But as you know, men can be pregnant too! Except…not really. Women who think they’re men can get pregnant, but here’s a little secret: They’re still women. Only biological females can get pregnant.

Yet in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office submission, Britain opposes the term “pregnant woman” because it may “exclude transgender people who have given birth”. The suggested term is “pregnant people”.

 

Only two known UK cases exist of transgender pregnancy, where children are born to trans men who have had a sex change but retained a functioning womb and ovaries.

Trans-man = still a biological female. UK officials know that, right?

Believe it or not, some feminists are actually upset by this. It’s about freaking time.

Sarah Ditum, a prominent feminist writer, said: “This isn’t inclusion. This is making women unmentionable. Having a female body and knowing what that means for reproduction doesn’t make you ‘exclusionary’. Forcing us to decorously scrub out any reference to our sex on pain of being called bigots is an insult.”

Basically, the UK is completely wack. It’s nerve-racking, because the left looks adoringly across the big pond. They want to embrace more of that kind of insanity here in America.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office statement, revealed today, follows UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s announcement last week that the government is to press ahead with a consultation on changes to the Gender Recognition Act, allowing people to “self-certify” their gender.

 

Critics have warned biological men will get the legal right to access women’s hospital wards, prisons, lavatories, changing rooms and competitive sports simply by declaring they are female.

The UN covenant is part of the International Bill of Human Rights. It undergoes periodic revision, with the latest UK submission part of the revising process.

 

The FCO said: “We requested that the UN human rights committee made it clear that the same right (to life for pregnant women) extends to pregnant transgender people.”

So ridiculous. All of it.

h/t The Australian