Trans people exist. Their right to be respected as their preferred gender is literally enshrined in law. It is just pointless prejudice to spot an instance where language includes them and to insist on excluding them again. https://twitter.com/IainDale/status/1289088973734924291

Trans men are roughly half as likely to access cervical screening as women and are at an increased risk of cervical cancer as a result. Cervical screening campaigns mostly address women. This is one little tweet that doesn't and people have lost their minds over it.

The disparity in access to cervical screening is a problem acknowledged by Public Health England and there's a lot of robust research into it in the US. The CNN tweet just uses the original wording of the report by the American Cancer Society.

I think people worried about the erasure of the word women shouldn't be. It is one tweet about a medical paper. This is still broadly acknowledged as a women's health issue and most comms campaigns about cervical screenings are addressed to women.

But think about the serious public health basis for using more precise language that includes the trans men who face additional barriers to accessing cervical cancer screening and who have a right to representation too.