Healthline Website Changing on-line terminolgy for Female Anatomy

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   RJ Schwartzposted 6 years ago

   One of the highest trafficked websites in the nation has decided that politics are more important than actual scientific-based medicine.  On the website, the term vagina is now being replaced with "front hole" (I kid you not) to appease the gay/lesbian/trans community.  Regardless of which of the numerous "genders" a person claims to identify with, the term vagina is a real medical term used by real medical professionals all over the English-speaking world.  This appears to be nothing more than an attempt to force the majority to succumb to the minority. 
   
   Revisionist medicine?   Thoughts?

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   FatFreddysCatposted 6 years ago

   Who are the back holes who came up with such a ridiculous idea? What a bunch of urinary appendages.

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      RJ Schwartzposted 6 years agoin reply to this

      Likely the same people who came up with the cis thing

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   Live to Learnposted 6 years ago

   LOL. Front hole, how scientific sounding. Sounds like an uneducated illiterate is in charge of that site.

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   SmartAndFunposted 6 years ago

   No woman I know is happy about this, including lesbians. My lesbian friends feel like the "GBT," especially the "T," have unceremoniously kicked them to the curb.
   
   This ridiculous language comes from the Human Rights Campaign (at least that's where I first saw it used), which is attempting to rename the vagina the "front hole," and redefine the word "vagina" to describe a male's surgically created genitals after he has undergone sexual reassignment surgery to appear female.
   
   This Orwellian language is incredibly insulting to women, and in addition is anti-science.
   
   There's more craziness. You can check it out here: http://assets2.hrc.org/files/assets/res … _FINAL.pdf
   The renaming and redefining of anatomy is on page 4.

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      RJ Schwartzposted 6 years agoin reply to this

      Redefining terminologies is not new; in fact it is a tool often used by those who want to wash away the past.  Many subversive groups benefit from all things American, yet hate America at the same time.  They want to tear down statues, burn books, rename streets and public buildings, etc. - all as a way to try to "erase" the past (and the things they don't like)

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      wildernessposted 6 years agoin reply to this

      Well, at least "we use" was freely scattered through the nonsense.  They are free to use words however they wish to, to chang definitions to whatever they wish.  I will through quite a wrench into their communication skill set, though.

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      Live to Learnposted 6 years agoin reply to this

      How forward thinking. Let's let men feel better about their problems while ensuring women are sidelined.

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   psycheskinnerposted 6 years ago

   Without a source I don't believe it

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      psycheskinnerposted 6 years agoin reply to this

      A two second google shows that Healthline, which is not a very major site at all, still uses the term vagina
      
      https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/vagin … ront-hole/
      
      Being a scientist, I check before accepting a "fact"

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         Kathryn L Hillposted 6 years agoin reply to this

         He said "I kid you not."
         We believed him.
         
         "Front hole" is very chid-like, but I don't think even a child would find it appropriate. "Hole" is a great and useful word. Lets not destroy it by assigning to a part of the body which is not a hole at all.
         
         Good grief.

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            RJ Schwartzposted 6 years agoin reply to this

            This is from their website:
            
            In the LGBTQIA Safe Sex Guide, we use both front hole and vagina. “Front hole” is one of the numerous, accepted terms for genitalia we use specifically for certain members of the trans community who identify with it.
            
            Also:
            
            “Front hole,” as another term for vagina, is also used by the National Institutes of Health, Human Rights Campaign, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth journal, and Fenway Health in collaboration with Harvard Medical School, the National LGBT Health Education Center, and the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers.

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               Aime Fposted 6 years agoin reply to this

               They say they use it specifically for members of the trans community. So what? I think it’s a weird term (in the same way that I think it’s weird when parents give their kids’ genitals cute nicknames) but it affects me in exactly zero ways. If they start insisting that everyone else refer to their vaginas that way then sure, I’d have a problem. Personally though I think it’s a little weird to be getting worked up over what some people want to call their own genitals.

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         PhoenixVposted 6 years agoin reply to this

         Snopes is 2 liberals and a cat.

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