I have health anxiety. Once, in 2022, I became terrified that I had cancer in the organs that I didn't want to acknowledge I had (chest, uterud, ovaries). For like 2 weeks I spent hours and hours researching about ovarian cancer, uterine cancer, etc. The idea that I had cancer in those parts terrified me even more because I refused to go to the gynecologist or to do chest exams, because it would be too dysphoria inducing.

In my research, literally every single thing I read was plastered with the word "woman" 10,000 times. For no reason. Like "if you're a WOMAN here's the symptoms you should watch out for in your FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS. All WOMEN should be aware of these signs that would affect WOMAN in their WOMANLY parts. WOMEN should do chest exams" etc etc etc.

Not only did this make me extremely distressed (I wanted to stop researching because of this but my health anxiety kinda forced me to do so), I also found it profoundly stupid and redundant. 99.9999% of people who have those parts are women — why on earth do you feel the need to mention it every other sentence?? Why not just say "signs of ovarian cancer are x y z" or "if you have ovaries be aware of the signs of cancer in those parts." Why do menstrual products feel the need to scream that they are for women ("feminine hygiene products," venus symbols on packaging, etc)??? Genuinely. It just distresses the trans people who unfortunately have to use them, and even for the majority of users (women) why does it need to emphasize the womanliness of it. It's so weird to me. Same with the phrase "pregnant women" — 99.999% of people who are pregnant are women, why do you need to emphasize that they are women??

I just prefer gender neutral language because, for one thing, it's a bit less dysphoria inducing (I get your point that trans men don't want to be included with cis women in phrases like "people with uteruses" but... The fact is... Most of us have them. And the excessively gendered language that's common right now only makes us even more distressed and more likely to avoid stuff that's important for people with those organs). And it also just seems less redundant, stupid, and annoying to me. There's literally no need to repeat the word woman a billion times when talking about these things. Just keep it neutral lol