AMERICAN NEWS May 30, 2024
Biden’s Dept of Labor urges employers to help ‘menstruators thrive at work’
The government agency was slammed online for the post.
Thomas Stevenson
May 30, 2024
The Biden administration's Department of Labor (DOL) urged employers to help "menstruaters" at work on Wednesday in a post. The DOL, under the leadership of Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su, said that "#Menstruation affects half the U.S. workforce but talking about it at work can be taboo. For #MenstrualHygieneDay, here are 5 easy actions employers can take to help menstruators thrive at work." Menstruators, uterus-havers, cervix-owners, birthers, and other reproductive function or body part terms have been replacing the words "woman" or "mother" in documentation and rhetoric across the Biden administation to appease those who believe males and females can change their biological sex through sheer belief, medication, and surgery.
Critique of this rhetoric comes from many women who know for sure that this is not possible, yet language continues to be used to obliterate the concept of women and replace it with these other, biology-specific words and concepts.
The article from the DOL, "5 Ways Employers Can Make Workplaces More Menstruation-Friendly," reads "To commemorate this Menstrual Hygiene Day, the Women’s Bureau is breaking down the stereotypes and stigmas that have made menstruation a taboo topic in the workplace," but from there, the language turns away from women and toward their function.
https://thepostmillennial.com/bidens-dept-of-labor-urges-employers-to-help-menstruators-thrive-at-work?utm_campaign=64487#google_vignette
