BBC backs presenter who changed ‘pregnant people’ to ‘women’ on-air

https://thetab.com/2025/06/24/bbc-backs-presenter-who-changed-pregnant-people-to-women-on-air

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29 comments

  3. Of course they did. Even they realise how ridiculous ‘pregnant people’ is

  4. To not say women is a disrespect and denial of the billions of women that have suffered through childbirth in order for us to be here

  5. Thank god. Pregnant person is just degrading regardless.

  7. Good. It’s pregnant women, not bloody pregnant people, chest feeders or uterus owners.

  8. Finally common sense. Next it’ll be People’s health as opposed to Women’s health.

  9. Christ I don’t care. I just don’t think it is important enough for me to give it a single thought either way

  12. She was quoting someone else and changed their words. Regardless of the issue behind it, newsreaders shouldn’t misquote people.

  13. Maybe we should start referring to each other as biological females

  14. If pregnant people is a thing why can’t I as a man get a sex change get all the hormones even my own vagina and still never become a pregnant person? It’s almost like I’m missing a specific feature women are born with something that holds and nourishes a baby it’s biology it’s a fact of life no one is hating on trans people

  16. Common sense returning.
    Keep that toxic, divisive American filth where it rightfully belongs.

  17. Pretty sure this was settled by law. You have to cry about it in silence now.

  19. Whether a person personally agrees with what is being said or not is irrelevant, a journalist should not be editorialising quotes based on their personal views, and the BBC should not be backing them in doing this.

  20. TL;DR – I’m trans and tired of people kicking off about unnecessarily inclusive language.

    She isn’t a politician, she’s not speaking in parliament.

    She’s not a lawyer in court.

    She’s not a nurse or doctor seeking accurate medical information from a patient.

    She’s a presenter talking to the masses. While she does need to be polite, she does not need to be politically correct.

    Before anyone has a pop, don’t. I’m tired of hearing people going off on one about the changes in language to be all inclusive, in doing so it can sometimes do the opposite. I’m trans and I’m sick of hearing people gripe about how being a woman is being erased when talking about pregnancy and periods. I get it, when I still had periods, they sucked. I have an intimate understanding of the whole process. But think I give a damn seeing menstrual supplies being called feminine hygiene? No. And I never will.

    It’s a ballache saying pregnant people all the time. The general population immediately assumes womb = woman. That’s their expectation. It’s not 100% accurate, but it’s pretty damn close.

    There’s being inclusive, and there’s shining a spotlight on less than what… 0.04% of the population and screaming from the rafters that everyone should change their behaviours on our behalf.

  21. Literally more than 99% of the population thinks “pregnant people” is madness and has no place in our public discourse. How are we having to deal with this shit?

  22. Good for her. Although huge parts of reddit seem ready to lynch her

  23. Pretty sure only people that can be pregnant are biological females that’s what I got taught in sex education when I was in secondary school.

  24. It is an extremely rare condition. A rare “condition” would be being trans, at 0.5% of the uk population, trans people are rare. Intersex people don’t even make up 0.01% of the population, it is an extremely rare condition.

  25. I don’t understand how we reached the point where we have to justify saying “pregnant women”. It is something big, life-changing and there are a lot of women suffering because they can’t get pregnant or they have stillbirth. So yes, it’s something only women understand and can share.

  26. Nature is healing from the decade of bullshit shit libs

  27. I think it’s a real disgrace that even pregnancy, something so inherently tied to the female experience, is being stripped away from women as something they have ownership over. It feels like yet another example of how women’s identities and language are being eroded in the name of inclusivity.

  28. Jesus, I’m probably trans, but let’s face facts. Biologically, human women get pregnant, you can’t alter reality because some people’s reality is different

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