Warming the whare for trans people and whānau in perinatal care

Parker, George; Miller, Suzanne; Baddock, Sally; Veale, Jaimie F.; Ker, Alex; Kerekere, Elizabeth

doi:10.34074/rsrp.230727

2023

DOI: 10.34074/rsrp.230727

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Warming the whare for trans people and whānau in perinatal care

George Parker¹,

Suzanne Miller²,

Sally Baddock³

et al.

Abstract: Final deliverable report for the project: Understanding the need for trans, non-binary and takatāpui inclusive perinatal care (HRC 20/1498)

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Gender‐inclusive language in midwifery and perinatal services: A guide and argument for justice

Pezaro,

Pendleton,

van der Waal

et al. 2024

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Effective communication in relation to pregnancy and birth is crucial to quality care. A recent focus in reproductive healthcare on “sexed language” reflects an ideology of unchangeable sex binary and fear of erasure, from both cisgender women and the profession of midwifery. In this paper, we highlight how privileging sexed language causes harm to all who birth—including pregnant trans, gender diverse, and non‐binary people—and is, therefore, unethical and incompatible with the principles of midwifery. We show how this argument, which conflates midwifery with essentialist thinking, is unstable, and perpetuates and misappropriates midwifery's marginalized status. We also explore how sex and gender essentialism can be understood as colonialist, heteropatriarchal, and universalist, and therefore, reinforcing of these harmful principles. Midwifery has both the opportunity and duty to uphold reproductive justice. Midwifery can be a leader in the decolonization of childbirth and in defending the rights of all childbearing people, the majority of whom are cisgender women. As the systemwide use of inclusive language is central to this commitment, we offer guidance in relation to how inclusive language in perinatal and midwifery services may be realized.

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Gender‐inclusive language in midwifery and perinatal services: A guide and argument for justice

Pezaro,

Pendleton,

van der Waal

et al. 2024

Birth

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Warming the whare for trans people and whānau in perinatal care

Abstract: Final deliverable report for the project: Understanding the need for trans, non-binary and takatāpui inclusive perinatal care (HRC 20/1498)

Cited by 1 publication

References 61 publications

Gender‐inclusive language in midwifery and perinatal services: A guide and argument for justice

Gender‐inclusive language in midwifery and perinatal services: A guide and argument for justice

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