Giving birth is the most woman centred experience there is. It's really hard; it's important; it's positive; it's seminal. Attempting to disassociate this experience from being a woman is almost a deliberate erasing of the phenomenal power of the female body.

@JenCages None of this negates my point.

@helenstaniland Yes it does.

@JenCages @helenstaniland Only women (XX) give birth. Men (XY) do not.

@JenCages @helenstaniland Not everyone who gives birth is a woman? I'm assuming you're talking about various species of animal, but even then they are female.

@JenCages @helenstaniland Some are girls

@JenCages @helenstaniland But you would agree it’s woman-centered? hard? important? seminal? And what do you mean not every e who gives birth is a woman?

@JenCages @helenstaniland Literally every person who has ever given birth was a woman or girl. No man has ever given birth.

@JenCages @helenstaniland not everyone who gives birth is a woman... true... female cats, female dogs, female elephants, female wolves, female tigers, female giraffes... notice a common thread here? women are adult female humans and they give birth.

@JenCages @helenstaniland who, other than a woman. has ever given birth ?

@JenCages @helenstaniland Everyone who has given birth is a girl or woman. That some don't want to be seen as such doesn't change fact. The curious thing is women willing to hand over the "ownership" of the unique female ability of childbirth; to men. By saying women are men or "non-binary". Nice gift.

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@JenCages @helenstaniland Only women give birth!

@JenCages @helenstaniland “Not everyone who gives birth is a woman” 🤡

@JenCages @helenstaniland Everyone who gives birth was born female. The rest is true.

@JenCages @helenstaniland “Not everyone who gives birth is a woman” well I can guarantee that everyone who has given birth had a vagina, which is something only females have.

@JenCages @helenstaniland Oh dear.

@JenCages @helenstaniland Everyone who gives birth IS female. Every single one. Women and unfortunately some girls. Stop pretending sex is about something other than reproduction.