Women have criticised a charity after it suggested the vagina could instead be referred to as ‘the bonus hole’ to avoid upsetting non-binary or trans men.
Female rights campaigners rounded on the alternative glossary, branding it both misogynistic and utterly degrading.
It’s featured on the charitable organisation Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust on a page for health professionals who are treating patients who have the disease.
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The trust urged it wasn’t suggesting the term should be used by all women, but added it was important to reach trans men and non-binary people. But the ‘bonus hole’ term, which the cause says was developed with expert organisations who work with the LGBT community, was widely condemned.
The page also features a suggestion that the vagina might also be referred to as a ‘front hole’.
It’s entitled ‘Language to use when supporting trans men and/or non-binary people.
Conservatives for Women founder Caroline Ffiske told a newspaper outlet that the gender movement seemed actively to want to encourage body disassociation and hatred, in other words, to actively create more confused young people alienated from their own physicality and their own sex.
She said what better way than to use this utterly dehumanising language about our own bodies? And she said that to her mind this was grooming. Create the unease, the disassociation, the alienation, and then when they’ve done that, they step in with euphoric rhetoric about trans joy.
She said, fill the void you’ve created, but of course, those doing this won’t be around to pick up the pieces when young bodies are irreversibly damaged and young lives are destroyed and asked if there was a mechanism whereby these charities promoting harm could be struck off.
The glossary says it was created with the help of the LGBT Foundation.
It adds that using the wrong terms if a person doesn’t use them can lead to them feeling hurt or distressed.
Kellie-Jay Keen, the founder of Standing for Women, described parts of the glossary as an erasure of female language.
She added that the whole thing was loathsome but bonus hole and front hole were so misogynistic.
She said that if a woman was so triggered by the word vagina, then she would imagine that she needs serious psychiatric help rather than the world bending to her never-ending list of irrational needs.
She added that you would think that charities focused on cervical cancer would have better things to do than erase female language. Still, it was better than the Canadian cervical charity which devoted a whole section for men with cervical cancer.
This is positively insulting because this is how some women bring life into the world, and this expression ‘bonus hole’ somehow implies that it’s some kind of goal for men, or that it’s some sort of prize, and this is disgusting.
It sounds more like a term men would use when they get laid or score in a nightclub or one-night stand.
This word is degrading and discriminatory and extremely unprofessional, and any healthcare professional that can’t or won’t use the correct medical terms for body parts should be struck off.
I pretty much like the term vagina, but if we have to call the vagina a ‘bonus hole’ then men’s penises should be called ‘bonus skin fold’ instead, but then we shouldn’t give them ideas.
This really does have to stop now! Otherwise, the future will be too horrendous to imagine.
So now, what should we start calling health professionals – oh, don’t tempt me!
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