What’s So Scary About “Birthing People?”

Conservative hysteria over gender-inclusive birth language reveals how hard they cling to outdated, sexist ideas of family.

A child, horrified by progress.
If you type “gender neutral baby,” you get this. I admit that I cannot gender this child. Photo by Jenean Newcomb on Unsplash

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Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.