The September edition of Lancet Medical Journal (Volume 398, Number 10306) depicts the following quote; ““Historically, the anatomy and physiology of bodies with vaginas have been neglected.”
According to RT, the contentious phrase appears in the two-page article by The Lancet’s senior editor Sophia Davis, reviewing an exhibition called ‘Periods on Display’ at the Vagina Museum in London’s Camden Market. While the pull quote is accurate, Davis does use the term “women” several times, as well as “people who menstruate.”
Many on social media have been triggered by The Lancet calling women “bodies with vaginas”. With sone saying the phrase dehumanises and erases women.
Dennis Kavanagh of Lesbian & Gay News tweeted; “The dehumanising language has now infected the Lancet.
The Lancet for Christ’s sake.
Trans women are women.
But women are “bodies with vaginas”.
On Sky News Australia, commentator and lawyer Caroline Di Russo says “The Left have said for a long time that historically women were treated like chattels … well at least they were sentient beings,” she told Sky News host Andrew Bolt.
“I was appalled a few months back talking about ‘people who menstruate’. Well at least ‘people who menstruate’ are sentient beings.
“So now not only have we been deprived of our womanhood, we’ve been totally dehumanised.
“How did we get here?”
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