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The Biden Administration is actively replacing the word "mom" or "mother" with "birthing person."
At a hearing, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Bacerra was asked for the reasoning behind the move by congressman James Lankford:
The administration’s proposed Fiscal Year 2022 budget used the term “birthing people,” saying that the proposal includes funding for maternal health to “help end this high rate of maternal mortality and race-based disparities in outcomes among birthing people.” The ideology behind the term is to create an inclusive expression for transgender individuals who give birth but do not identify as female.