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Semi-protected edit request on 21 May 2024

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Suggestion to clarify language throughout that pregnancy occurs in human *females*. That is the sex of someone with a womb: female is the most accurate, least political definition of who can be pregnant. Different language for such examples as the image captioned "pregnant woman" makes sense, of course. I am not an activist nor angry denizen. This suggestion is earnestly meant to help make a protected article irrefutable: female is female. Thanks. 207.102.159.61 (talk) 16:29, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Do you want the word "female" to replace "woman", or to supplement it?

There was a discussion recently that claimed using female as a noun (e.g., "human females", but not "female humans"; "pregnant females", but not "female athletes") is derogatory. It turns out this has been contested off and on for about 130 years. Originally, it was about the word female being used for other animals, so the Victorians decided that it was dehumanizing to lump women into the same category as livestock. Now, it seems to be about the linguistic quirks of kids these days ("Every time I've dated a young man who talks about 'females' instead of 'women', he turned out to be a misogynistic jerk"). WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:33, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Edit semi-protected}} template. Jamedeus (talk) 18:46, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Exercise Physiology in Aging, ES4300-01

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 12 August 2024 and 2 December 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Weloveaging, Iloveexercise, Peytonkunert, Dsham2244, Jennshakti (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Jennshakti (talk) 19:13, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

Person(s)/people with uteruses

Instead of using the words "female" and "woman", can we just use the phrases "people with uteruses" and "person with a uterus"? And then we can also specify that such people can get pregnant if they have a functional uterus. This is perhaps the most inclusive we can be, including all people who have uteruses whether they cis or trans, woman and/or man and/or non-binary and/or agender.

How about this sentence as the lead: >Pregnancy is the time during which a person with a functional uterus develops one or more offspring (gestates) inside their uterus (womb)

I also strongly agree with @Sideswipe9th regarding this discussion. — CrafterNova 11:13, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

The "people with body parts" language, though anatomically accurate, is often seen as dehumanizing and as ignoring the social components.

Think about the intersectionality that results in excess maternal mortality for Black women in the US. The shockingly high perinatal death rate is not because they're humans who, as a matter of ordinary biological variation, happen to have uteruses and melanin. It's because of their social race and their social gender: they're Black women who live in a society that values this social type of person less than other social types of people. To erase their gender is to pretend that gender doesn't matter. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:11, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Agreed with WhatamIdoing. Also, when we look at how sources (especially WP:MEDRS) as a group talk about this topic, the vast majority simply refer to "women"; it is not the place of Misplaced Pages editors to go against this. This especially holds true when it comes to specific claims that go deeper than "who can get pregnant"; most of the studies that have been done and which we cite really are about women specifically, and not trans men or nonbinary people, even though biological differences between the two (such as hormone levels from hormone therapy) may plausibly exist and affect pregnancy. We cannot commit WP:OR and extend these statements to be about non-women. Crossroads 00:34, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Exercise Physiology in Aging, ES4300-02

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 12 August 2024 and 2 December 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): M3701 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Cedriunah.

— Assignment last updated by Cedriunah (talk) 21:04, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 14 November 2024

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I would like to edit the pregnancy article. More specifically, the exercise section. Iloveexercise (talk) 16:00, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 14 November 2024 (2)

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Hi I am trying to post a paragraph of a summary of my 3 articles I researched. It won't let me edit my paragraph in because this article is protected but I need to post it for a grade. I hope to be able to do this because I need to post it today. Dsham2244 (talk) 19:32, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 14 November 2024 (3)

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Hello, can I have permission to edit this article for my class assignment? Jennshakti (talk) 21:17, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. M.Bitton (talk) 21:25, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

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