{"id":42198,"date":"2023-02-15T08:48:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T08:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=42198"},"modified":"2023-02-15T08:48:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T08:48:25","slug":"use-egg-producing-not-female-say-scientists-in-call-to-phase-out-binary-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/02\/15\/use-egg-producing-not-female-say-scientists-in-call-to-phase-out-binary-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Use &#8216;egg-producing&#8217; not &#8216;female&#8217;, say scientists in call to phase out binary language"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24858\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/glossary-300x130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/glossary-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/glossary-500x217.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/glossary-360x156.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/glossary.jpg 577w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">T<\/span>he words \u201cmale\u201d and \u201cfemale\u201d should be phased out in science because they reinforce ideas that\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2022\/12\/26\/little-women-author-non-binary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">sex is binary<\/a>, scientists have suggested. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/lifestyle\/style\/use-egg-producing-not-female-say-scientists-in-call-to-phase-out-binary-language\/ar-AA17tsSE?ocid=msedgntp&amp;cvid=a02534fe3a4f49389e75be168c954b91\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The words \u201cmale\u201d and \u201cfemale\u201d should be phased out in science because they reinforce ideas that\u00a0sex is binary, scientists have suggested. Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/gender-dysphoria.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42199,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42198\/revisions\/42199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}