The General Medical Council (GMC), are putting women's
sanitary products in men's lavatories because they say they're an "inclusive organisation." As a body
that regulates doctors in the UK and provides training for doctors, they must
realise that men don't menstruate but women do. This is a biological fact, but
it should remind us of the dangers of misusing language.
The term 'woman', i.e. an adult female human being, is almost
becoming unutterable in certain sections of society, something that dare not
speak its name. Sir Steer Calmer, who
wants to be the next Labour Prime Minister, thinks that 99.9% of women don't
have a penis. Most of us think it's 100%.
They now talk of 'people with uteruses/uteri', or 'people who
menstruate'. This may in part, explain the confusion over basic biology. It
should be noted that while bodies like the GMC and DEFRA, squander the taxpayer’s
money on unnecessary sanitary products for men, many real women in this
country, experience something called period poverty.
A poll by Action Aid,
found that the number of women who are struggling to afford period products in
the UK, has risen from 12% to 21% in one year. Many young girls, both in this
country and the U.S., are known to have missed school because they couldn't
afford to buy sanitary products.
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