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Piers Morgan
Why is language being de-gendered to avoid upsetting a tiny minority of trans people when it upsets most women?
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"WHAT is a woman?"; I asked Dame Joan Collins several weeks ago on my new show Piers Morgan Uncensored.
"What is a woman?" she repeated, incredulously. "ME!"
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I burst out laughing because of course, it really is that simple.
A woman is an adult female human… like Joan Collins.
Yet we’re now living in such a ridiculous woke-ravaged world that even senior British politicians and US Supreme Court justices cannot answer that simple question for fear that the trans activist mob will cancel them.
Slowly but surely, society has bowed to this linguistic tyranny and in the process, caused possibly irreparable damage to women’s rights.
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It’s got to the stage where women in positions of authority are saying things that 20 years ago would have got them locked up in an asylum on grounds of utter insanity.
For example, the headteacher of private Burgess Hill Girls School in West Sussex has just announced she will no longer call her students "girls" because there are "so many gender options."
Moreover, Liz Laybourn said she may also stop using the word "daughter" when writing to parents – who’ve paid large sums of money specifically to send their girls to an all-girls school – in case it offends them.
Yet the name of her school remains Burgess Hill Girls.
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And on the school’s website, the first thing you see is a letter from Ms Laybourn which begins: "Our mission at Burgess Hill Girls is to help develop your daughter into one of Tomorrow’s Women."
So, she’s happy to use gender-specific language to entice people to part with large sums of cash to send their girls to her girls-only school, but then refuses to use it when the girls actually attend the school.
Have you ever heard anything so utterly ridiculous?
This descent into language lunacy reached a shocking nadir with news that the NHS has dropped the word "women" from its main online health advice for women being treated for cervical, womb and ovarian cancers.
This despite the fact that ONLY women born to female biological bodies suffer from these diseases, because only women have cervixes, wombs and ovaries.
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England’s NHS website previously described ovarian cancer as "one of the most common types of cancer in women", but now it says: "Anyone with ovaries can get ovarian cancer, but it mostly affects those over 50."
Anyone?
It’s not "anyone", it’s women.
People looking up cervical cancer were told: "Cervical cancer develops in a woman’s cervix (the entrance to the womb from the vagina)." Now they’re told: "Cervical cancer is a cancer that’s found anywhere in the cervix."
This quiet and sinister de-gendering only came to light when the NHS website’s advice on miscarriage was changed to say, "losing three or more pregnancies in a row (recurrent miscarriages) is uncommon and only affects around 1 in 100 people."
People? No, it affects 1 in 100 women!
After an inevitable outcry, it was swiftly changed back, but how much more of this is being done without the media spotting it?
Last month, it was revealed that midwives have been told by the Government not to use phrases like "breast-feeding" or "vaginal birth" to avoid causing distress to trans people. Instead, they were encouraged to use the phrases "chest-feeding" and "frontal or lower birth".
The impact of this PC c**p is potentially damaging
Does anyone care about the distress this PC c**p might cause women with breasts and vaginas (spoiler alert: that’s all women)?
Like so much woke, virtual-signalling garbage, the effect of this language de-gendering in our health service is potentially very damaging.
As Dr Karleen Gribble of Western Sydney University told the Times: "The changes to desex language are well intentioned, but we are seeing that they are making communications less clear and when it comes to critical health issues that has great potential to place the health and wellbeing of individuals at risk."
Of course.
There are already serious problems with poorer female patients without English as their first language, or of low literacy, who already find it hard enough to follow health advice and therefore don’t get checked in time - and some, tragically, end up dying.
Removing the word ‘women’ from the guidance will self-evidently make it even more difficult for those women to follow it.
Therefore, it’s inevitable that screening rates will fall even further than they have been doing, and lives will be at risk.
This madness will also directly impact on trans patients who, as of last year, can now request an entirely new set of medical records with any reference to their biological sex removed in favour of their own self-declared gender identity.
This is supposed to make them feel more "inclusive."
But ironically, it’s dangerously EX-clusive because it means health conditions specific to their biological sex may get completely missed.
This is a war on women and their rights
Trans men (biological females) won’t be sent screening invitations for early detection of diseases specific to women as they are now categorised as male, and trans women (biological males) won’t be invited to screenings for diseases specific to men as their medical record categorises them as female.
It’s apparently been left to GPs to alert their trans patients to their sex-specific screenings, but how many doctors will take the time from their already over-worked schedules to actually do that?
Should there be any doubt that this is a war on women and their rights, the men’s health pages on the NHS website refer specifically to ";men" and "male" in the advice for diseases such as testicular and prostate cancer.
This is about as pure a form of sexism you could wish to find, coming from an organisation that would laughably claim to be doing all this in the pursuit of fairness and equality.
The bottom line is this: why is language being de-gendered to avoid possibly upsetting a tiny minority of trans people when it so obviously upsets the vast majority of women who would just like to continue being called women, or girls?
Where are THEIR rights not to have their titles eradicated because some angry, usually male, Trans activist hysterically demands it and threatens to cancel anyone who doesn’t agree?
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That’s why I applaud Health Secretary Sajid Javid for finally taking a stand and saying enough.
Women are women, and never is this a more important fact than when it comes to their health.
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