this sort of language is actually dangerous and exclusionary to women with low education, literacy, or who are not native English speakers. 44.2% of women don't know what a cervix is: https://twitter.com/FondOfBeetles/status/1289161162576207877

Also, many women currently living in the Anglophone world who come from a large number of different countries fill all of these characteristics at once: they've been deprived of education; they are not literate even their own native languages; and they have very limited English language skills - or none at all.

Many immigrant and refugee women in the US still know little or no English even after residing stateside for years or decades because a) they come from extremely patriarchal cultures where women are mostly confined to the home and are entirely under the control of their husbands or other male relatives; b) they are not allowed to attend classes or access other learning resources in their new country; c) it's very difficult - or nigh impossible - to learn a new language when you can't read and write in any language, not even your native one.

What's more, vast numbers of women from many countries where they did get an education, have worked outside the home, and can speak English still often have never received the most basic information about their own female biology. In the 80s and 90s I taught advanced-level ESL to adult refugees to the US who hailed from a vast number of diverse home countries - Cambodia, the USSR, Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Romania, Syria, Yemen, Iran... - and though my students all had excellent English skills, some had obtained uni and post-grad degrees in their home countries, many had worked outside the home, and many had children, virtually none of my adult female students had been taught even the most rudimentary facts of female biology.

Today, I know tons of women from all over the world who've immigrated to North America and the UK from a wide variety of countries. But whilst most of these women have managed to learn English, to obtain employment, to successfully navigate new cultures and legal systems, and have birthed and raised kids or are raising kids in their new countries, the majority of these women grew up without a basic understanding of biology and female physiology. Because in much of the world reproductive biology and female physiology are not taught in school and are still considered taboo topics.

In many places on earth even today in 2020, any discussion of female physiology is considered unseemly and expressly forbidden. As Ireland's decision this week to ban a Tampax advert for being "offensive" illustrates all too well.

Now gender ideologues want to make it shameful and explicitly taboo to acknowledge and speak about female biology throughout the Anglophone world as well. Progress this ain't.