Say "egg producing", not "hen"

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So say these “science experts”

Woke scientists have called for the terms male and female to be replaced as part of a crackdown on 'harmful terminology' in science.

Instead, 'sperm-producing' and 'egg-producing' or 'XY/XX individual' should be used to avoid reinforcing 'societally-imposed ideas of a sex binary', researchers suggest.

Even the terms mother, father and fitness are in the firing line. 

Some members of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) Language Project, founded by scientists in the US and Canada, wrote that 'much of western science is rooted in colonialism, white supremacy and patriarchy' which 'continue to permeate our scientific culture'.

To 'address this history', 'harmful' scientific terms should be identified and revised to 'foster inclusion', they argued.

Context: Feminized implies that 'feminine' and 'masculine' are biological traits rather than social constructs.