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Wiki Education assignment: Exercise Physiology in Aging, ES4300-01

This article is currently the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 12 August 2024 and 2 December 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Weloveaging, Iloveexercise, Kyliekoch, Peytonkunert, Dsham2244, Jennshakti (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Kyliekoch (talk) 02:18, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Person(s)/people with uteruses

Instead of using the words "female" and "woman", can we just use the phrases "people with uteruses" and "person with a uterus"? And then we can also specify that such people can get pregnant if they have a functional uterus. This is perhaps the most inclusive we can be, including all people who have uteruses whether they cis or trans, woman and/or man and/or non-binary and/or agender.

How about this sentence as the lead: >Pregnancy is the time during which a person with a functional uterus develops one or more offspring (gestates) inside their uterus (womb)

I also strongly agree with @Sideswipe9th regarding this discussion. — CrafterNova ^{[ TALK ] [ CONT ]} 11:13, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The "people with body parts" language, though anatomically accurate, is often seen as dehumanizing and as ignoring the social components.

Think about the intersectionality that results in excess maternal mortality for Black women in the US. The shockingly high perinatal death rate is not because they're humans who, as a matter of ordinary biological variation, happen to have uteruses and melanin. It's because of their social race and their social gender: they're Black women who live in a society that values this social type of person less than other social types of people. To erase their gender is to pretend that gender doesn't matter. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:11, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed with WhatamIdoing. Also, when we look at how sources (especially WP:MEDRS) as a group talk about this topic, the vast majority simply refer to "women"; it is not the place of Wikipedia editors to go against this. This especially holds true when it comes to specific claims that go deeper than "who can get pregnant"; most of the studies that have been done and which we cite really are about women specifically, and not trans men or nonbinary people, even though biological differences between the two (such as hormone levels from hormone therapy) may plausibly exist and affect pregnancy. We cannot commit WP:OR and extend these statements to be about non-women. Crossroads ^-talk- 00:34, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I would like to edit the pregnancy article. More specifically, the exercise section. Iloveexercise (talk) 16:00, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. M.Bitton (talk) 21:25, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi I am trying to post a paragraph of a summary of my 3 articles I researched. It won't let me edit my paragraph in because this article is protected but I need to post it for a grade. I hope to be able to do this because I need to post it today. Dsham2244 (talk) 19:32, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. M.Bitton (talk) 21:25, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, can I have permission to edit this article for my class assignment? Jennshakti (talk) 21:17, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. M.Bitton (talk) 21:25, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jennshakti, Iloveexercise, and Dsham2244: This article is open to registered editors who have made more than 10 edits and whose accounts are at least four days old. That includes all of you now. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:47, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]