Comments by "JLH" (@Kyarrix) on "How Your Phone Knows If You’re Getting An Abortion" video.

I think you mean pregnant women right? The person being interviewed kept talking about pregnant people. I'm pretty far to the left, I supported Bernie, I work and support the rights of everyone. But people who get pregnant are women. We don't have to change language so far that we talk about pregnant people instead of pregnant women. I'm a feminist, I'm leftist but please.
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@blackbox8490 people don't get pregnant. Women get pregnant. It strikes me as ridiculous to listen to someone talking about people getting pregnant, it invalidates women. Are there some cases of transgender people who are still physically female but consider themselves male and get pregnant? Sure, granted. But even in those cases you're referring to, the person is physically a woman. It is damaging to mangle language in an effort to be politically correct while invalidating women's experience. This is why it bothers me. Women and girls menstruate and get pregnant. Men do not. It's true that the transgender community has suffered at the hands of conservatives and those who are unwilling to acknowledge them. We can address that issue without changing language and invalidating women. Why do you feel that it is necessary to refer to pregnant people or menstruating people? Is it your position that men menstruate or get pregnant? Clearly they don't, why does this matter to you?
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@blackbox8490 I thought this was the case, but I'm not invalidating anyone's experience. I am stating simply that girls and women menstruate and get pregnant. Men do not. If you identify as a woman then you are in that category. Men do not menstruate. Men do not get pregnant. The category of trans people is an exception and relative to the population at large, comprises a small number of people. The fact that I say that women and girls menstruate and get pregnant is not intended to invalidate your lived experience. Is it your position that all of language should be altered for trans people? Is it your position that women's experience should be invalidated because you don't feel that you fit the category? Language changes over time, perhaps it will change and we will come to talk about people who get pregnant and people who menstruate but I hope that we don't. There are differences between men and women. Women cannot impregnate, but we give birth. There isn't a lot that is hard and fast but this is one of those few things. My stating this doesn't invalidate your experience. I am not saying that you should not identify as the gender you feel yourself to be. I am not stating that you should not have equal rights. You should. However, if you look like a man, you should not be using the women's bathroom. It can be intimidating for girls and women to have people who appear male using the same washroom. I recognize that this might not be fair to some trans people, but there is an equally compelling concern of the comfort and well-being of women. If a trans person appears to be female, they should use the bathroom they feel most comfortable using. If their appearance is male, they should use the men's bathroom. I live in the Seattle area and I've had the disconcerting experience of a large muscular person with facial hair, someone who very much appeared to be a man, entering a small two stall women's bathroom. That shouldn't happen. Unfortunately I think you're going to take the position that it's fine, that to deny that person the right to use the women's bathroom invalidates their experience. Do you have any concern or consideration for the experience and existence of women? Or do you negate that entirely because you are a trans person who views themselves as male? Do you think trans people, male to female, who do not appear female should be able to use the women's bathroom because they identify as female? This wasn't the original issue but I think it's related so I brought it up.
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