The leftist newspaper owned by Jeff Bezos just updated their stylebook guidance on how they refer to pregnancy to make sure they are more ‘inclusive’. Seriously.
The short version is that the Washington Post doesn’t want to offend anyone, so they’ve come up with a wordy solution when dealing with pregnancy in general: “…use pregnant women and other pregnant individuals.”
They actually give permission for reporters to use ‘pregnant women’ when the context is “people who identify as women”. But if is not the context, it’s “pregnant women and other pregnant individuals”.
To avoid confusion, they ask reporters to explain that “transgender men and people who are nonbinary can also become pregnant.”
It’s no coincidence that this update is in direct response to what an abortion activist said yesterday in a Democrat hearing:
“And I just wanted to acknowledge that a lot of people are being left out of this conversation today. Because as we know, people get pregnant and not just women. But I hear people over and over again saying women get pregnant. But that’s excluding people that should be a part of this conversation.”
This is exactly how this deranged mentality spreads into the wider public and we’ll have no part of it here. Let me be clear, only biological women can get pregnant, no matter what clothes they wear or how they cut their hair or what they call themselves. Men cannot get pregnant. Period.
Here are screenshots of the stylebook from Travis Lyles who works for the newspaper:
