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    BBC viewers say same thing as presenter changes ‘pregnant people’ to ‘women’ on air

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    1. SeniorPea8614 on

      So the aged, women, and those with pre-existing health conditions need to take precautions?

    2. shameshame23 on

      Who the fuck is Malcolm Mystery. Shouldn’t he be busy fighting Batman or something?

    7. djwillis1121 on

      I don’t understand why people care so much about stuff like this. What’s so bad about saying pregnant people? Such a weird thing to get outraged over

    8. Panda_hat on

      Totally normal thing to focus on and care about and totally not deranged and weird.

    9. Launch_a_poo on

      The initial message was that the elderly, those with pre-existing medical conditions and pregnant people needed to take precautions with respect to the heatwave

      “Pregnant people” is a much more suitable term for a health risk warning. Medical advice is supposed to be clear cut and highly specific. Are pregnant trans-men and non-binary people not at risk from the heatwave?

      There’s an effort from some to completely erase trans people from public life. Compromising medical advice just to make sure they’re excluded is bizarre

    10. WebDevWarrior on

      Why do we need to know J.K Rowling’s views on EVERY story that involves the trans community?

      The London Evening Standard, The Sun, GB News, Express, Daily Mail, Telegraph, Metro, MSN, The Times, Scottish Daily Express, and Several Local UK rags, have all spammed her nonsense across their copy for this story.

      It’s like getting the KKK’s perspective on the jewish community or the tories objective with the disabled. All you’re going to end up with is an empowered mob with extremist ideologies hoping they can use their “messiah” to eventually slaughter people.

    11. Darq_At on

      I find it kinda weird how the anti-trans crowd keeps insisting that women aren’t people.

    13. honkballs on

      307 comments in an hour… and I can only see about 10 of them, what’s going on??

    14. homelaberator on

      Honestly, it has all the energy of people who kept insisting on using “man” instead of people or “mankind” over “humankind” or “he” over “they”. Yeah, 99% of people who are pregnant will be women but the medically relevant detail is pregnant, not woman, so why insist on emphasising the wrong thing?

      Given that we already say “the elderly” perhaps “the pregnant ” is better. Shorter and to the point.