# "Pregnant People" v. "Pregnant Women"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 17, 2021, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnant-people-v-pregnant-women/950848 "2021-09-17T23:15:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 140
**Author:** ![Somethingwitty1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/somethingwitty1/32/8899_2.png) [@Somethingwitty1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Somethingwitty1)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2021, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnant-people-v-pregnant-women/950848/140 "2021-09-18T09:39:59Z")
> [@What is the English word for a human with a naturally occurring vagina?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-english-word-for-a-human-with-a-naturally-occurring-vagina/950861/13): > > Why would you want to announce the birth anatomy of a person you just met? This is where I need to mention that in addition to the fact that you don’t know this about a person you just met (I’ve met several trans people that you’d never guess were trans) it’s also really rude to refer to a person by their birth anatomy and not by their current social gender. Now, there are contexts where someone needs to know that. Mostly those are medical contexts. My son’s new doctor asked (on a form) for h… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnant-people-v-pregnant-women/950848)._