Women have worked really hard for centuries for their rights to freedom and to not be shamed for periods and such (many parts of the world still do shame them) but now they have to be called "People with vaginas?" because of the less than 1% of the populations who identify as male and have a vagina? I know a few people who are F-M trans and I have had this discussion with them and they don't agree with using these terms. They want to be men and not a "Person with a vagina" just as much as women want to be called women. Who is actually pushing this agenda?
The term “people with vaginas” arose because the terms “female” and “male” started getting used to define gender rather than sex, IMO. If we kept “male” and “female” as purely in reference to sex and the reproductive system, it wouldn’t be such an issue to say “female reproductive health” or “sex toys for females”.
Sometimes I think trans people reject being categorised as male or female because it’s so often done to them maliciously, to taunt them over not “really” being a man or woman. This is a conflation of sex and gender*. You see it all the time on Twitter. If we don’t want to use the term “people with vaginas”, which I as a female, a woman and an SA survivor find simultaneously reductive but understandable, we need to stop the terms “female” and “male” being used in bad faith
*Radical feminists usually believe in the idea of gender as a social construct, whether they are trans-exclusive or not, which means separating gender and sex. I would define myself as a trans inclusive radical feminist. I believe that there are some issues that affect the female sex uniquely and some that affect women as a whole, and that because woman as gender is based largely around the female sex, a lot these issues are tightly intertwined.
All this is to say that trans men very often have female reproductive systems and need to receive female reproductive care. They are affected by the stigma and discrimination surrounding female sexual and reproductive health and well-being (the lack of research into e.g. endometriosis or PCOS). And as the language used in a context can signal to a person whether they will be safe and welcome, in order to make sure trans men feel safe and welcome in accessing vital health-care, I do think it’s important to use inclusive language. So again, it’s frustrating that the term “female” has been weaponised in this context, apparently out of malice and to nobody’s benefit. Sorry for posting this in this thread, but as this has come up a few times, that’s my two cents on this