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Nothing wrong with 'pregnant people' either, depending upon the sentence, I guess.. It covers anyone pregnant, which is its purpose, and is obviously accurate.

if we reject inclusive but objectively accurate terms, will we then argue for more of our 'own' narrower categorizations, (like we somewhat did in bygone years) by promoting descriptions such as 'pregnant girls' or 'pregnant ladies' or 'pregnant damsels,' etc.

Word usage changes all the time. When it does so for reasons which only benefits others, while remaining accurate, why would we not embrace it?

If 'people' in some cases does sound redundant, then something like 'the pregnant,' 'those who are pregnant,' etc. would be an equally good solution, and in some cases even better, if it flows better in a particular sentence and does not pick on others..

Often there are multiple accurate and objective ways of solving language questions.

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Don't fall for the right's trick of categorizing things they don't like as 'woke.'

They know 'woke' is a trigger word; they've made it that way. Then they use it to set up a 'false premise' argument.

'People' is preferred because it's objectively accurate, not because it's 'woke' or promotes an ideology.

No one can argue that 'people' is inaccurate.

Greater accuracy is always preferred.

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