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56. It is removing the ability of the majority of those who can become pregnant to be referred to as

they wish--as women. The choice is not and SHOULD NO be limited to the minority of those who have a uterus but who do not identify as women, though their wishes should be respected. Nor should the choice of self-identifying women be taken away. That is exclusion, elimination, and subtraction, diminishing of countless millions of women's right to self-identify as women. 'Pregnant women and other pregnant persons' is fine. Removing choice from women who elect to identify as women--pregnant or not, is NOT. We are not a mere uterus, baby bumps, or objects.

At a time when the RW wants to remove all autonomy from self-identifying women and others with a uterus--to remove their choices and ability to make decisions about their own bodies and futures, this is a horrendous thing to see--advocating that women should not be able to identify as women, including pregnant women. Inclusion means respecting the choice of self-identification and the terms associated for ALL. Depersonalizing women who elect to be called women--99% of those with a uterus such that they are no longer to be called women is just bigoted and wrong. Trans men and women should have the freedom to choose the manner in which they are addressed and referred. So, too, women. Neither you nor the RW nor any other group should have the right to tell them otherwise.