No more “birthing persons” thank you very much.

Kate Forbes has ordered her civil servants to stop using the term “birthing person” instead of “woman” in SNP government documents.

The Deputy First Minister, a devout Christian, objected to the phrase being used in a briefing that dealt with official pregnancy and maternity guidance.

Her religion is irrelevant. Trans ideology is itself a kind of religion; irrational belief is not a compelling reason to reject a different irrational belief.

The SNP’s civil servants initially tried to withhold the term Ms Forbes had objected to but it was published following an appeal under the FoI legislation.

Scottish Government maternity guidance published the month after Ms Forbes’s intervention used the terms “woman/women” instead, noting that “this is the way that the majority of those who are pregnant and having a baby will identify”.

The majority? Try “all but a few loonies in thrall to a loony ideology.” It’s not a mere majority who know that men can’t gestate babies, it’s almost every adult on the planet.

Susan Smith, a director of the For Women Scotland (FWS) feminist group that won the case against the Scottish Government, said: “Pregnancy and maternity represent a protected characteristic under UK law with distinct rights attached.

“It is absurd that insulting and reductive alternatives were ever used to refer to women or mothers: ‘Birthing people’ is an especially dehumanising phrase.

“We are pleased that the Deputy First Minister recognises this, but it is very troubling that this ideological language was ever allowed to infect Government and we trust that, in future, this change will be reflected across all departments.”

This ideological insulting deranged language.