This is amazing! I think this grassroots "activism" is so effective!

Edit: and I always like to point out that AFAB is coopted from intersex people, and the meaning is to have a gender forcefully and often surgically imposed onto babies who have developmental disorders.

Using it for observing sex is dismissive and insulting to this brutal practice.

I am so very happy that the BBC did this. 😀 The clumsy “assigned female st birth,” “people with vaginas,” language is giving the impression that women are some kind of version of Voldemort- they Cannot Be Named.

I wish the US would get onto this. It seems like the UK is slowly turning back towards feminism away from TRA rhetoric, whereas the US, which is far more rife with neocon bullshit, is paradoxically far more ridden with nonsense like this, that goes unchecked, or at least, doesn’t face the same resistance.

I’m not sure how it is in the UK, but the US has ththis current cultural thread of idolizing trans people- the whole Jazz bullshit, featuring them n commercials for Facebook, making a massive fucking deal out of trans celebrities, putting TIMs in high positions, featuring TIMs as cover models and “Woman of the Year” and so on, making veritable overwhelming shit tons of media about how special trans kids/young people are, etc. On the other side; any time a trans person does something heinous, it gets either explained away with No True Scotsman, “you’d understand if you had a hard life too,” “that’s not what actually happened,” etc, or just swept under the rug. We have this whole onslaught of how great and special trans people are. I see articles published in mainstream UK media, that I’d never see published in the US outside of Fox News. Not partisan articles, in fact blatantly unbiased ones, stating facts and events like a disinterested robot. Meanwhile, in the US, articles about trans people in sports refer to the female opposition as “feminists” with literal quotation marks around the word. Maybe that’s why the gender critical movement hasn’t taken off here a sit has there.

I know the UK still has a battle to fight, but Injusf wish we could get some more influence in the US. If this had happened here, i strongly feel that the response would have been doubling down on the anti-woman language.

They also had to correct "causes of endo..." to "symptoms of endo..."

What kind of amateurs do they have working there? Probably ones too worried about signaling their fidelity to the gender cult to pay attention to the actual substance of what they're writing about.

I honest to god never thought I would see this day.

I've been in the radfem community for roughly 10 years now, under various usernames, and I can't even begin to describe how impossible this seemed.

There was a point where many of us radfems were resigned to our fate, that we'd be stuck with this trans horseshit forever. Things got extremely bleak at times. Things often went backwards.

To see this correction, well... it's given me hope unlike anything I've ever felt before. This is such a good sign I honestly might start crying.

Thank goodness. However small this may be, it's still wonderful to see.

I don’t think I realized that AFAB bothers so many people here (though I can understand why), and I feel embarrassed now as I think some of my first comments here used that language when referencing women and trans men. I’ll just say females instead from now on.

I’m so happy BBC decided to do this. And the TRAs having meltdowns in the comments is just the icing on the cake :-)

Wow. I am impressed.

shifting the sands.

As much as anything else, it's just so much easier to read.

raises cup of tea

Well done my good people of the British Isles. Well done!

https://twitter.com/millihill/status/1507942260939309056

It's a small thing, but I'm still happy it was changed.

Good news. For once. Usually they double down.

I like that they agreed to correct it. Many people who go along with this stuff are only trying to be good people and don't really fully believe in all the queer theory nonsense. I think it's good that they changed it when pointed out how insulting this language is to women instead of dismissing people as terfs

Good work. It's important to be accurate when it comes to healthcare, I mean do TIFs on hormones even have this issue? They have a whole host of separate gynecological problems like vaginal atrophy, lumping us in with them probably doesn't even help them. It's stupid on the TIM side too, they can cry about how they're being excluded as "women who don't have endo", yeah so what, I don't have it either. You aren't special..

We have power!! We just need to work together. I wonder how many people here and on twitter would vote on this one issue? I know I am a liberal but I'm now a one issue voter and I won't be voting Dem or Republican this November. I'll write in JK Rowling to every office.

That's so heartening!

Any updates on the radio show that compared JKR to Hitler?

This is good news but the amount of people saying 'cis men can get it too!' is insane. While it can apparently happen, it is so rare that there are fewer than 20 cases recorded in medical literature. But sure, let's pretend that endometriosis is a health concern shared by men.