SueDonim
Offensive. It’s another means of erasing women. It also denigrates adoptive parents who adopt children - they haven’t given birth to them but they are the child’s mother/father. People can call themselves what they want but don’t include me, thank you very much.
Excellent point! It’s not really strange that these words are to benefit the male sex.
If they’re human and give birth, they’re female. What they call themselves is their business, but they shouldn’t try to interfere with the word ‘mothers’ -by birth or by adoption just because it doesn’t suit them.