It should go without saying, but some graphic language does follow. Not profane so much as... descriptive.
Why are we renaming body parts?
It's very important that we demonstrate respect towards trans people by calling things things they are not. This of course is respectful and not condescending in the least.
This very helpful guidance is from our friends in British Columbia, adapted from the Fédération du Québec pour le planning des naissances (FQPN). You can find the full PDF here because of course, you want to.
As you can imagine, "Trans-Inclusive Abortion Services" is rife with complications not to mention moral objections, but let's focus on a few specific things.
From the document above.
"While consent documents cannot be changed for [medical]-legal reasons,..."
I could see that being a problem.
"...it is possible to attach a small note to the forms that states, 'We recognize that you may use different language to refer to your body, body parts, and the body and body parts of your partner(s). Please let us know what words you use to refer to your body.'"
If you want to use the word "feet" to refer to your hands, feel free, but you might want to lower your expectations when you go see a podiatrist for your carpal tunnel syndrome.
"We should avoid the unnecessary and problematic gendering of body parts (for instance, calling ovaries, fallopian tubes and uteruses parts of the female reproductive system)."
Calling the parts of the female reproductive system, the female reproductive system is "problematic."
I hope you're taking notes.
Oh, and just in case you're wondering if we've wandered off topic, no, we're still in a medical setting.
"We might also use language such as 'people with breasts,' 'bodies with penises,' 'pregnant people', rather than 'women with breasts,' 'male-bodied' or 'pregnant women.'
Okay, fine, I suppose we can all try to...
"For some, however, this may not go far enough..."
Does it ever?
"Words like breast, penis, vagina, uterus, may not be how some trans people refer to their own bodies..."
If you say that enough times it starts to sound like the name of a law firm in a Mel Brooks movie.
"— some common ways that body parts can be renamed includes breasts being renamed as chests, vaginas being renamed as front bums."
In case you were wondering, no, nothing possibly could go wrong calling body parts by the wrong names in a medical setting.
The document also includes do's and don'ts.
Five-and-a-half pages of them.
Even parts of speech, like suffixes, can be part of this treacherous terrain of trans triggering.
Now you know why it's five-and-a-half pages long.
I could write much of this off as hypersensitive nonsense or suggest it harms the transgender community by, as woke liberals love to do with race, exoticizing them for their own virtue-signaling purposes, but there is a much larger issue here.
"Scenario: Kit is fifteen and came out as trans three years ago. His period stopped weeks ago, but he thought nothing of it. He didn't realize he was pregnant until a few days ago, when he fainted at school and was taken to the hospital."
Kit believes he "needs" an abortion (interesting choice of words).
"He didn't feel like he could ask the nurse. When he goes home, he searches online and finds nothing. Obstacles: Kit is like many other trans youth, and has not yet been educated on his own reproductive capacities."
This is the predictable and obvious outcome in making believe biology doesn't matter, and that what you "identify as" magically becomes reality.
The problem was not that Kit was not "educated on his own reproductive capacities," it was that he was educated that because he is trans, because he didn't have to worry about "gendering" his ovaries, fallopian tubes and uterus as "parts of the female reproductive system," and because he could simply call them part of his "front bum," he couldn't get pregnant.
From an article earlier this year.
Oh, the "reproductive health movement," among others, definitely fails trans people, just not the way they think.
