Author Milli Hill on the Growth of Social Justice Mobs Among Birthing Activists, Dhoullas, and Midwives

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4.6 • 917 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with British writer Milli Hill about the online mob that accused her of transphobia in late 2020—and why she still refuses to describe women as "birthing people." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Colette Podcast. My name is Claire Lehman and I am editor and chief of Colette.
0:08.0	Colette is where free thought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary.
0:14.8	Our podcast is a team effort and is jointly hosted by myself, associate editor Toby Young and
0:20.6	Canadian editor Jonathan Kay. You can support our podcast by visiting
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0:33.0	Welcome to the Quilat podcast.
0:36.0	I'm Jonathan Kay.
0:37.0	This week my guest is Millie Hill,
0:39.0	a prominent British author whose books include The Positive Birth Book, A New Approach to Pregnancy, and Give Birth
0:46.2	Like a Feminist. Now, this is not going to be a podcast episode about birthing.
0:51.6	No one wants to hear John Kaye talk about giving birth like a
0:54.0	feminist. But Miss Hill's expertise in birthing is important to understand
0:59.0	what happened to her last year. When she suggested on social media, ever so diplomatically, that may be the proper
1:05.8	term for the people who give birth is women, as opposed to birthing people, which has become
1:11.6	the new preferred gender- neutral term among some progressives.
1:15.6	In our discussion, we talk about how Miss Hill was denounced on social media for even questioning
1:21.5	who was pushing for this change in terminology
1:24.0	and why everyone suddenly was expected to fall in line with it.
1:27.0	Miss Hill told her full story in a July 10th blog entry titled,
1:31.0	I will not be silenced. And that essay she detailed how some of the people
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