Sall Grover complained on Twitter about the Medicare form.
‘Attention women in Australia: On the form to put our newborn baby on our Medicare card, we are referred to as “birthing parent”. Enough is enough. This absolute bullsh*t is exclusionary, alienating and derogatory towards every woman wants to be and is called “mother”.’
Clearly Ms Grover wasn’t buying the whole mantra, ‘Not everyone’s gender identity matches the reproductive organs they were born with therefore you have been reclassified as a birthing person rather than a mother. Now are you ready to try chest feeding?’
Ms Grover’s tweet went viral and – credit where credit is due – Government Services Minister Bill Shorten acted immediately.
He tweeted:
‘They will be replaced with new forms that use the word mother, not birthing parent.’
Insisting that men can be pregnant and, in the same breath, that accuracy matters is oxymoronic.
It is precisely because accuracy matters that people (by whom we mean women) who give birth are called mothers. That this needs to be explained to the most educated generation history is genuinely astonishing.
[I]f trans men insist on giving birth then you have to question their commitment to being men!
And to think these people mock Christians for believing in the virgin birth. At least the Virgin Mary was a woman! And at least Christians, unlike activists, have the honesty to admit their worldview requires miracles.
Karvelas wants us to imagine a world in which men can have babies because it would be kind. I want to imagine a world in which everyone eats take-out and never gets fat because that too would be kind. Except it isn’t the real world.
Source: Bill Shorten is right about mothers | The Spectator Australia
I agree with Bill! This is ludicrous! When will we expect males to bear babies? If ever, it will be a VERY long time! I know one can never say never! However, lets say for the foreseeable future, child bearers will be women and mothers!