CNN was brutally teased on Twitter after tweeting a story Thursday about cervical cancer screenings recommended for “people with a cervix,” rather than “women.”
The wording of the medium was similar to that of the American Cancer Society, which issued a guideline urging “people with a cervix” to begin screening at 25 years of age.
CNN’s story about the guideline touched on an already raging debate about the biological basis of the genre. Earlier this month, Pink News promoted a UK cancer charity that rejected what the outlet described as the “disgusting transphobic lie” that only women get cervical cancer.
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One of the paragraphs in the CNN story suggested that Pap tests and hysterectomies did not know the gender.
“People who are 65 years or older and who have had an adequate negative result in a previous evaluation can stop taking the test,” the article reads. “People with a hysterectomy may also stop the screening after two consecutive negative HPV tests, two negative co-tests, or three negative Pap tests performed in the past 10 years, with the most recent occurring in the last three years. to five years. “
Many Twitter users pointed out that the medium was ignoring a fundamental reality of human biology.
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“Biology must be difficult for @CNN,” Students for Life of America president Kristan Hawkins tweeted. In another tweet, he asked, “You mean women? Only women can have a cervix.”
Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway pointed to CNN’s “Facts First” campaign, which uses the fruit to make its point.
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“How do I know if I have a cervix?” Stephen Pollard of The Jewish Chronicle tweeted. “Do I need a scan? Or is there some general concept that identifies people with a cervix?”
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However, some defended the exit, suggesting that the wording was appropriate.
This was not the first time that CNN seemed to reject plain wording for political reasons. The outlet was criticized for using the phrase “fetus that was born” while discussing protections for babies who survived abortions.
