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Karleen Gribble

@drkarleeng.bsky.social
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Western Sydney University Infant feeding, sexed language, child rights, foster care and adoption. VMO. Deeds not words.

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Karleen Gribble @drkarleeng.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Are newborns blank slates? Does it matter to them from whose oocyte they are conceived or who gestated and birthed them? Using research from adoption, donor conception and surrogacy this paper argues for considering the child's experience in surrogacy language. www.frontiersin.org/journals/glo...
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Karleen Gribble @drkarleeng.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
New paper with Melissa Bartick and @jpsmith1.bsky.social on breastfeeding, breast pumping and "human milk feeding." We call for support for breastfeeding and not just providing expressed breastmilk, preservation of "breastfeeding" as a term, and breast pumps to be added into the WHO Code scope.
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Quillette @quillette.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Dr Karleen Gribble, who works in the field of maternal and infant health, on the impacts of desexed language on women’s healthcare and wellbeing.
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Podcast #306: Desexing the Language of Motherhood
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Dr Karleen Gribble, who works in the field of maternal and infant health, on the impacts of desexed language on women’s healthcare and wellbeing.
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Karleen Gribble @drkarleeng.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
My new paper argues it is time to ditch “gender” except in relation to “gender identity.” "The use of “gender” to refer to sex, the social expectations of the sexes, and gender identity... is hampering important discussions...with real-world implications." link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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International Confederation of Midwives @internationalmidwives.org · 29/04/2025
🌍 This #ResourceTuesday, we're spotlighting ICM's position on The Role of Midwives in Humanitarian Crises. In line with #IDM2025—Midwives: Critical in Every Crisis—this resource calls for midwives to be central to emergency response & preparedness efforts. 📄 Learn more: zurl.co/4PtGK
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Karleen Gribble @drkarleeng.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I believe that birth certificates should record biological parentage. This Australian (NSW) example illustrates one reason why this is important- a married couple discover they share a father. There are many such examples and it is a common worry of people who are donor conceived or adopted.
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Karleen Gribble @drkarleeng.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The Sullivan Review on data collection recommended against "sex assigned at birth" due to inaccuracy. It also had this graph. Females face sex discrimination globally, at the extreme this is fatal. The idea that anyone assigns infants to this fate is extremely offensive www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Katie Pereira-Kotze @katiepk.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Really helpful article from colleagues who are able to articulate this challenge with the nuance required - Reconsidering “inclusive language”. Thank you @drkarleeng.bsky.social @mathisenroger.bsky.social & colleagues www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Reconsidering “inclusive language:” Consequences for healthcare and equitableness of a growing linguistic movement to address gender identity with a path forward
Increasingly, the language of female reproduction is changing, so terms directly referencing people’s sex are replaced with terms obscuring sex, a lan…
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Chris Pook @drchrispook.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Excellent work from @drkarleeng.bsky.social and her group. "Sex and Gender Identity: Data Collection and Language Considerations for Human Research Ethics Committees and Researchers" #SexNotGender link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Sex and Gender Identity: Data Collection and Language Considerations for Human Research Ethics Committees and Researchers - Journal of Academic Ethics
Including women in research and collecting and disaggregating data on sex is an ethical imperative. However, increasingly gender identity is being prioritised over sex in data collection and language ...
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Karleen Gribble @drkarleeng.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This is a fantastic article from Carole Hooven. Confusion of sex and sex characteristics is rife and there is a lot of misinformation. Nonetheless, there are only two sexes but there is enormous variation in sex characteristics between and within species. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/20/o...
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Don’t let anyone confuse you: There really are only two sexes - The Boston Globe
Trump is right about the science of sex. That doesn’t mean he’s got the right policies on gender.
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Karleen Gribble @drkarleeng.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
New @aunz.theconversation.com article with Nina Chad and @naomihull.bsky.social addressing a new trend promising more sleep for parents on Tiktok! theconversation.com/feeding-your...
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Feeding your baby butter won’t help them sleep through the night, whatever TikTok says
It might be tempting, but feeding your baby butter is not the answer. Here’s what to try instead.
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Karleen Gribble @drkarleeng.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Today is 3 years since the paper on importance of sexed language was published. It's had 175 000 reads/downloads in 160+ countries and has an attention score in the top 0.01%. I am grateful to my coauthors who agreed to jump into the void with me! www.frontiersin.org/journals/glo...
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Karleen Gribble @drkarleeng.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The downside to submitting 12 papers and book chapters for publication last year is that they come back from review and require alteration/response and then proofing!
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Karleen Gribble @drkarleeng.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The second paper from the BiBS Study is online in the @RACGP journal on general practitioner support for pregnant women, new mothers and infants and young children before, during and after disasters. www1.racgp.org.au/ajgp/2025/ja...
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Karleen Gribble @drkarleeng.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Over 2020-21, the USCDC gradually desexed their health communications. We documented some of this in Supplementary file 1 of our paper on the importance of sexed language. www.frontiersin.org/journals/glo... In the last few days, language has reverted back to sexed terms.
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Karleen Gribble @drkarleeng.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The most vulnerable mothers and infants are at risk because of the 'female data gap'. This includes breastfeeding women in areas of Ebola outbreaks. In a new paper we outline a research roadmap for evidence-based recommendations on Ebola and breastfeeding. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Karleen Gribble @drkarleeng.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
What do Ugandans think of desexed terms like 'person with a uterus’, ‘person who menstruates’, ‘birthing parent,’ ‘chest feeding’? First, "disrespectful" "obscene and shameful” Second, confusing. The cultural imperialism of pressure to desex language from US/West is obvious.
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Karleen Gribble @drkarleeng.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This is well worth a watch. A number of speakers are authors in an upcoming book I also have a chapter in. My chapter is, 'The desexing of language in women’s health research and care: a story of marginalisation of science, cultural imperialism and abuse of power.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qif_...
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Censorship in the Sciences: Interdisciplinary Perspectives - Day 1
YouTube video by Heterodox Academy
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Karleen Gribble @drkarleeng.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
More new resources from the Australian Breastfeeding Association Bushfire Project are online. Go to www.breastfeeding.asn.au/supporting-f... to see animations for emergency responders on: * psychological first aid for babies and toddlers * mother-baby areas in disaster recovery.
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Karleen Gribble @drkarleeng.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Some new resources from the Australian Breastfeeding Association Bushfire Project are online. Go to breastfeeding.asn.au/emergency-re... to see animations on emergency preparedness for families with a baby or toddler and breastfeeding through a disaster pic.x.com/LQdkv6iRbS
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Karleen Gribble @drkarleeng.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
1/ New paper on submissions to Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council on language to refer to women and data collection on sex and gender identity. The submissions were supported by >200 academics, clinicians, women's health orgs and advocates. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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