Here we are at Mother's Day.
Who knows where Mother's Day will end up. There was contention this year over the "Mother" part. What about gay fathers raising children? What about transgender men who have given birth?
Services Australia, which runs Medicare, has previously provided data showing 22 transgender men gave birth in 2018-19. This made them among the 228 who had been pregnant during that decade.
Can you imagine 100 years ago - there would be no consideration to collect the gender of the person giving birth. This discussion was in the Daily Mail article:
"Last month Brendan Murphy, the secretary of the federal Department of Health, was unable to answer a question from Liberal senator Alex Antic about the definition of a woman. 'No, well there a variety – it's a very, it's a very … it's a very contested space at the moment, Senator,' Dr Murphy said. 'I mean there are obviously biological definitions but there are definitions in terms of how people identify themselves, so we're happy to provide our working definition on notice.'"
Wikipedia has lots of information about transgender pregnancy. I can't imagine how complicated this will make the anti-abortionists in the US who are using Mother's Day as an opportunity to have protests. And the alternative name that's been proposed? "Nurturing Day" or "Nurturer's Day". | 
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