https://thecritic.co.uk/we-cant-lose-the-word-woman/

I was shown a picture of a quite ludicrous advertisement placed in staff toilets in the hospital. It detailed ten different support and information sessions around menopause to be held on site. In the entire body of description of the sessions, one word was conspicuously and infuriatingly missing.

It was, of course, the word “woman”. In today’s performatively “inclusive” times, the dreaded word “woman” is the one most frequently sacrificed at the altar of “gender identity”. This word strikes instant fear into the hearts of interviewed politicians and makes them eat their own heads, live on camera, in an attempt not to define it. It is the word to be scrubbed from public documents as often as possible after quiet lobbying by pressure groups like Stonewall, the word to be twisted and stretched out of all meaning as often as possible to allow men to slide into women’s spaces unnoticed. It is women who always notice. We do notice when you move us out of language and move into our spaces, and we assume that you think we are stupid when you do.