The federal government and elected leaders have ushered in inclusive language such as “birthing person” as opposed to “pregnant woman” or “mother” in recent years, but there is no data showing how many individuals who identify as transgender give birth in the United States on a yearly basis.
The Biden administration replaced the word “mothers” to “birthing people” in the 2022 fiscal year budget, sparking harsh criticism from conservatives that mothers were being canceled. Democratic Missouri Rep. Cori Bush referred to mothers as “birthing people” during a Democratic oversight committee hearing last year, while the chief medical officer at the New York City Department of Health used the same phrase in a tweet just last month.
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