How The Washington Post Is Erasing Women
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How The Washington Post Is Erasing Women

Ben Johnson

A leader on the staff of The Washington Post leaked the section of its new stylebook, which encourages writers “to explain that transgender and nonbinary people can also become pregnant” and to introduce gender-neutral phrases like “pregnant individuals” in place of the use of “pregnant women.”

Other acceptable substitutes for the female gender, according to the Post, include “the pregnant population” and “pregnant patients.”

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