Now health professionals are being urged to label vaginas ‘bonus holes’ to avoid offending trans or non-binary patients
- EXCLUSIVE: Women’s rights campaigners say the term is misogynistic and wrong
- It appears in a glossary for health professionals to think about using
Women have slammed a charity after it suggested the vagina could instead be dubbed “the bonus hole” so as not to upset non-binary or trans men.
Women’s rights campaigners rounded up the alternative glossary today, calling it both “misogynistic” and “utterly inhumane.”
It’s on the charitable organization Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust on a page for health professionals who treat patients with the disease.
Today, the trust stressed that it was not suggesting that the term should be used by all women, but added that it was important to reach trans men and non-binary people.
But the term ‘bonus gap’ – which the charity says was developed with expert organizations working with the LGBT community – has been widely condemned.
The page also includes a suggestion that the vagina could also be referred to as a “front hole.”
The charity at the center of the controversy said it was doing everything it could to encourage everyone to attend screenings
The term appears on the page on the website of Jo’s Trust, a cancer charity, and is aimed at health professionals
It is titled ‘Language to use when supporting trans men and/or non-binary people’.
Founder Conservatives for Women Caroline Ffiske told MailOnline: ‘The gender movement seems to be actively encouraging dissociation of the body and hatred, in other words actively creating more confused young people who are alienated from their own physicality and their own gender.
What better way than to use this utterly inhuman language about our own bodies?
“In my eyes, it’s grooming: create the unease, the dissociation, the alienation, and when you’ve done that, step in with euphoric rhetoric about ‘trans joy.’
Fill the void you’ve created. Of course, those doing this won’t be around to pick up the pieces when young bodies are irreversibly damaged and young lives destroyed. Is there a mechanism by which these charities that promote harm can be taken down?’
The glossary says it was created with the help of the LGBT Foundation.
It adds that using the wrong terms if a person isn’t using them can cause them to feel hurt or sad.
Kellie-Jay Keen, the founder of Standing for Women, described parts of the glossary as “an erasure of the feminine language.”
She added, “It’s all repulsive, but the bonus hole and the front hole are so misogynist.
Caroline Ffiske, left, who founded Conservatives for Women, said the term was “dehumanizing”;
Women’s rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen said ‘bonus hole’ was a ‘misogynistic disgusting term’
“If a woman is so triggered by the word vagina, I would imagine she needs serious psychiatric help instead of the world indulging in her endless list of irrational demands.
‘You would think that charities that focus on cervical cancer would have better things to do than erase women’s language. Still, it’s better than the Canadian cervical charity that devoted an entire column to men with cervical cancer.’
The trust moved today to confront the controversy and explain why it had published the guide.
It said it was included to try to help health professionals and reach potential cancer patients who may be concerned about attending screenings.
A spokesperson told MailOnline: ‘We are aware that some of our online information is currently attracting a lot of attention. The information being shared comes from a web page written for health professionals to support trans men and/or non-binary cervical cancer patients to attend cervical screening.
The page contains a glossary of terms they may hear from their patients and was developed with expert organizations working with the LGBT community.
The page does not promote the use of these expressions in all women, it is a list of expressions that nurses may hear that some patients prefer.
“Our mission at Jo’s is to prevent cervical cancer as much as possible, and a big part of that is increasing the acceptance of cervical cancer screening.
‘Women are our main target group at Jo’s, but some trans men and/or non-binary people have cervical cancer and in order to reduce cervical cancer as much as possible it is important that we also provide information to this group and the health professionals who support them. ‘