Words matter.

They define who we are, how we are seen, and how we see ourselves. That is why the sudden trend of redefining “women” and “men” through newly minted pronouns and terms is more than a harmless fad. It is creating real harm, particularly to the very groups these changes claim to protect.

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If you call me a “chest-feeder,” you have not only reduced my humanity, you have trivialized my experience as a woman and as a breast cancer survivor. I lost a part of my body to a disease that scars more than the flesh. To then be told that the word “breast” is somehow too offensive or exclusionary, and that I must now use a new, sanitized phrase, is a trauma of its own. This is not inclusivity. This is erasure.

The irony is painful. Those who lobby for pronoun changes a

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