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Don’t use terms like ‘women’ in article about periods, sanitary pad firm ‘told website’

Writer claims her article had to be changed to be more inclusive to transgender people because it was sponsored by Always

Always, the sanitary pad firm, told a parenting website to remove the words “women”, “girls” and “females” from a period advice article, a women’s health writer has claimed.

The period pad manufacturer is alleged to have asked parenting website Good To Know to remove gendered language from an article about teenage girls’ first menstruation to avoid offending transgender people.

The site allegedly removed words including “girls” and “women” from an article sponsored by Always to ensure the content remained “inclusive”, women’s health writer Milli Hill has claimed.

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