{"id":23903,"date":"2025-10-31T11:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/23903\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T11:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:46:11","slug":"even-the-woke-city-council-cant-keep-its-gender-jargon-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/23903\/","title":{"rendered":"Even the woke City Council can&#8217;t keep its gender jargon straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As it passes legislation about pregnancy, postpartum health and lactation, the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/23\/opinion\/city-council-aims-to-destroy-food-delivery-in-order-to-save-it\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">City Council<\/a> is doing its best to avoid using the alarming word \u201cwoman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remain committed to ensuring that every birthing person, regardless of race, income, or ZIP code, has access to the quality care and support they deserve before, during, and after pregnancy,\u201d says Councilwoman <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/05\/25\/us-news\/city-hall-sees-new-bill-to-mandate-radiator-inspections-four-months-after-brooklyn-tot-was-fatally-burned-by-steam-from-faulty-heater\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Farah Louis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t use the w-word! <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n<p>Nor the term \u201cm-ther,\u201d which excludes . . . other genders who give birth?<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Adrienne Adams likewise sponsors a resolution urging Albany to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/21\/us-news\/ny-lawmakers-claim-hochul-is-targeting-them-for-ongoing-probe-into-alleged-11b-medicaid-program-scandal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mandate that Medicaid<\/a> automatically authorize the coverage of validated blood pressure cuffs and monitors for pregnant and postpartum people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pregnant \u201cpeople\u201d: Are we really still doing this?<\/p>\n<p>Women are in fact the half of the human race who have uteruses, carry babies to term, give birth and then breastfeed.<\/p>\n<p>Not every woman has babies, but every one of the tens of billions of humans alive today and in ages past was conceived, carried and born by a mother.<\/p>\n<p>Even the council can\u2019t keep the denial going consistently: It intermittently falls back on terms such as \u201cmaternal health,\u201d or \u201cmaternal mortality\u201d because nothing else really makes sense. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe (we\u2019ll have to check with the council\u2019s language commisars) it\u2019s OK if the word is rooted in Latin? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As it passes legislation about pregnancy, postpartum health and lactation, the City Council is doing its best to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[301,304,9,11,10,49,51,50,299,4014,11389,10403,4903],"class_list":{"0":"post-23903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-city-council","9":"tag-editorial","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-new-york-state","14":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-state-news","16":"tag-opinion","17":"tag-pregnancy","18":"tag-transgender-rights","19":"tag-woke-culture","20":"tag-women"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}