A leading medical journal has come under fire for describing women as 'bodies with vaginas' on the front page of its latest edition.
The Lancet was accused of sexism and dehumanising women after it editors used the term, which was written in an article titled 'Periods on Display', on the journal's front cover in an attempt to be inclusive to trans people.
The article, which was published on September 1, examines an exhibition exploring the taboos and history of periods at the Vagina Museum in London and sees the writer use the word 'women' four times but also use the term 'bodies with vaginas'.
The quote, which was then used on the journal's front page, read: 'Historically, the anatomy and physiology of bodies with vaginas have been neglected.'
However the move to use the quote has been met with criticism, with some academics calling it 'insulting and abusive' and a 'misguided pursuit of woke points'.
Meanwhile others said they had cancelled their subscriptions with the peer-reviewed medical journal - which was founded in 1823.
Medical experts accused the Lancet of sexism and dehumanising women after it editors used the term 'bodies with vaginas' on the front cover. (Stock image)
The medical journal used the term, which was written in an article titled 'Periods on Display', on the front cover of its latest edition
Dr Madeleine Ní Dhálaigh, who works as a GP, wrote on Twitter: 'Naming women as 'bodies with vaginas' is a new low, all in the misguided pursuit of woke points.
'You can be inclusive without being insulting and abusive. How dare you dehumanise us with a statement like this?'
While Prof David Curtis, honorary professor of genetics at University College London, said: 'Just wrote the Lancet to tell them to take me off their list of statistical reviewers and cancel my subscription and never contact me about anything ever again
'Absolutely inexcusable language to refer to women and girls.'
Elsewhere feminist Claire Heuchan wrote: 'This framing makes it sound like a coincidence that 'bodies with vaginas' have been neglected by medicine, as if it were not the product of a discrimination and oppression specific to the female sex.
