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ShardsOfBlue
@shardsofblue.com

Consultants are obsessed with reminding candidates not to talk about trans people or include us in any way in their campaigns, never mind using awkward-ass linguistic constructions like this, meanwhile my reps have never once mentioned I exist even when opposing bills that directly threaten my life.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

i consume an extraordinary amount of political content and i have never seen someone in elected office use the term "birthing people"

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ShardsOfBlue
@shardsofblue.com

Anyway inclusive language could be, depending on context, something like “people who could get pregnant,” or hell even “birthing parents” would be less weird. Idk I’m not a fan of “birthing” but I can’t think of another good descriptor. “Mothers and other carrying parents” maybe.