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Also the only time I've ever heard this language was people trying to be inclusive for putting tampons in all bathrooms
I don't want to assume complete bad faith, but she also goes on Jacobin and talks about need more police bc there is so much crime etc. so maybe I should
edit: I've looked through the thread more and I think some of the stuff could be phrased better, although it is primarily used in medical contexts so it's not like you're likely to be referred by these terms in the first place, there were some suggestions in the thread for alternative terms that could get the same meaning across, but the comments were like 80% bigots so even if she didn't mean it, which she definitely might of, she gave them an excuse to be bigots, if she really wanted to make this point she should have wrote more than just the last sentence to preemptively silence some of the typical bigoted arguments, so I'm assuming she doesn't care enough or is just a bigot both bad
I only see this in info material for medical exams ("who is eligible? - people with prostates" etc.). It makes perfect fucking sense there because biological sex in the sense of the unified whole terfs imagine it to be is utter nonsense. My biological sex is a bit more complex than that, so things like medical checkups have to account for that and use precise, unambiguous language so i know if i need a given exam or not. I simply do not know that it the leaflet says "men age 40+" because "man" is not and never was a biological category.
Nobody, literally fucking nobody, walks up to a cis woman and says "hello dear uterus-haver!"