Die richtige Wortwahl …
… ist manchmal schwierig für den Gesetzgeber. Daher sollten alle Personen die an der Gesetzgebung beteiligt sind Acht geben auf ihre Wortwahl. Der Artikel zu dem ich Sie führe betrifft zwar nicht Luxemburg, aber dennoch ist er ein sehr gutes Beispiel wie manchmal einer dem anderen ungewollt (!) auf die Zehen treten kann. Wenn dadurch auch noch den einen Rechte aberkannt werden, dann wird’s echt schlimm. Hier die Kontroverse.
Threats to “Women’s Rights” Step on Trans Toes
The recent legislative and funding threats to abortion rights, sexual assault, and sexual health (aka Planned Parenthood) have been described as an attack on women’s health. I do not agree with this… at least not in full. I have been getting a surge of petition and action emails from the sexual health organizations I work with, and I’ve been working hard to get the word out. The problem is that in order for me to spread the word I have to change the word being spread – one word in particular, the word woman.
I am a survivor of sexual assault. I need health care specific to a female assigned sex. I am also not a woman. I can’t help but find it frustrating when issues that affect me are, pretty much without exception, stated to be only for women. To be clear, I do not feel any discomfort being associated with women in any sense due to some masculine hang up or personal insecurity. Its just the simple reality that I am not a woman, and therefore I feel I should not be considered one in order to be included in legislation, or in this case, activist work. I wanted to re-blog an activist call from an inclusive femme blog about sexual health that, in theory, spoke to my experience. However I soon realized that the caption only discussed women. I felt really invalidated and as I replaced each "women" with "people" I felt even less included and more alone. Its like showing up to a rally for your rights only to be met a the door and told, "This doesn’t involve you." No, I am not a woman, but these are my rights too and I’m willing to fight for them.
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Ich bitte alle, die je an einer Gesetzgebung beteiligt sein werden, diese Artikel zu überdenken, denn, auch wenn ungewollt, so ist es doch grausam und diskriminierend Menschen Rechte zu entziehen oder nicht zu geben, obwohl die Umstände dazu gegeben sind.


