Better terms than "female/male" pelvis, suggestions wanted!

[sonia]

I was kindly notified (feel free to let me know in comments if you want to be named) that in my article Change the Rules, Inhabit Your Pelvis, referring to female and male pelvises is cissexist.

I want to change the article to be more correct/welcoming, and I'm looking for suggestions for better phrasing. "People with uteruses" probably correlates fairly well with wide pelvises, but seems indirect to me. "Assigned female" has the benefit of being compact, but is not entirely accurate. "Child-bearing" pelvis? What would I pair that with?

I welcome google search suggestions - I haven't come up with useful search terms yet. I imagine that trans-aware anatomists have come up with acceptable terminology, but I don't know how to find out what that is. What's a good way to say "anatomically female," or "female-bodied," or ....?

ETA: I changed female to cis female, and added a bit of text about "your pelvis may be wider or narrower than you expect." I thought about eliding gender altogether, but that felt like silently going along with cis male being the default everyone learns about.

Comments

[tim]

FWIW, it was me who sent the feedback to sonia, and I did so in a friendly way because I know Sonia well enough to know that she would receive the feedback in this way.

Personally, I'm not always so nice, and have lots of experiences where I can reasonably predict the feedback *won't* be received well and thus call somebody out in public because the feedback is really for onlookers and not for them :)

[tim]

Sorry, I did misunderstand your comment. It sounds like you have a lot of education that you need to seek out for yourself, and I can't do that for you.

Some places to start, though:

http://amydentata.com/2012/08/02/from-bite-an-introduction-for-biological-womenwarning-for-non-biological-women/ (it's funny, read this one first)

http://skepchick.org/2011/12/bilaterally-gynandromorphic-chickens-and-why-im-not-scientifically-male/
http://intersexroadshow.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/phalloclitoris-anatomy-and-ideology.html
http://genderbitch.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/male-female-broken-language/
http://eateroftrees.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/sex-is-also-a-social-construct/
http://unpitchable.tumblr.com/post//language-tips-for-cis-feminists-speaking-on-trans
http://www.autostraddle.com/its-time-for-people-to-stop-using-the-social-construct-of-biological-sex-to-defend-their-transmisogyny-240284/
http://transstingray.wordpress.com/annettas-trans-101/
http://kaberett.dreamwidth.org/102050.html

The thing that bothers me so much about misconceptions of the kind that you're expressing here is that they're not just anti-trans. They're anti-intellectual and anti-science.