Not all pregnant people are women, or mothers

Unlike science, the world of psychiatry remains in it's own delusional sphere.

ProTip: If you are pregnant, you're a female, no matter how you wish to be viewed.

Not all pregnant people are women, or mothers

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but not all people who have babies are mothers.

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It hasn't always been true, but today, not only are not all people who have babies not mothers, not all of them are even women.

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As it stands, says Abery, there’s an assumption that New Zealand’s babies are born to women – usually with male partners.

it's like they think that repeating this nonsense over and over without evidence somehow makes it true. They're using bullying and intimidation tactics, but we need to call them out for both the malice of their tactics and the stupidity of what they're saying.

Making pregnancy care gender inclusive means rewriting our entire approach, both figuratively and literally; the Ministry of Health’s website refers to “women”, birth plans are full of tips for what “dads” can do, and posters on the walls of midwifery clinics are covered in women wearing blowsy floral dresses.

How about no. There is no reason for the 99% of normal people to change everything in human history, culture, and medicine to cater to these religious fundamentalist 1% whose claims are not backed by science, evidence, or really anything other than their ideology.

The image of pregnancy as a feminine undertaking isn’t just exclusive, it’s potentially harmful for non-binary or transpeople experiencing it.

Most will have suffered body dysmorphia at some point in their lives. Many will have been subject to abusive acts or language against them.

Those are among the factors that lead to trans and non-binary people in New Zealand suffering psychological distress at a rate of nine times that of the general population.

Now they're trying to blame their mental health problems on normal people. Newsflash: trans and gay people have all kinds of mental health issues higher than the general population, and it's absurd to just try to pass it all off and blame that on everybody else. Why aren't they more accommodating to what everyone else around them thinks? It's very straight-phobic of them to ignore the experiences of 99% of humanity. Psychologists were right to classify transgenderism as a mental disorder, and I do hope these people get the treatment that they need to live better lives. The way to achieve that is not to give in the delusions of the mentally ill, however.