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Backlash mounts against call for word 'midwife' to be banned by NHS to stay 'inclusive' for transgender patients - while academics even want Royal College of Midwives to change name

Women's rights campaigners have hit back at a proposal that the NHS stops using the word 'midwife', claiming it amounts to the 'further erasure of the word "woman"'.