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Conservative hysteria over gender-inclusive birth language reveals how hard they cling to outdated, sexist ideas of family.

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

Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) didn’t intend to spend last week as a flashpoint for trans rights. The fact that she did comes down to two fatal words. The phrase came at the end of an impassioned…