The terms 'women' and 'girls' have been omitted from NHS-funded guidance about periods, MailOnline can reveal.
A website set up by the Welsh Government to give advice about menstruation refers to them as 'people who bleed' and 'half of the population'.
The use of gender-neutral language has reignited a row over biological females being erased from crucial public health advice.
Experts warned the wording could be confusing to young vulnerable girls from deprived areas, or whose first language is not English.
The guidance has been published by Bloody Brilliant, an online resource funded by the devolved Labour Government.
It was set up in 2021 with the aim of 'breaking the taboo around periods by encouraging conversation on one of the most normal, natural topics'.
The advice is the latest example of NHS guidance being 'de-sexed'.
MailOnline exposed earlier this year how terms like 'women' had been scrubbed from NHS England pages on the menopause and womb cancer.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11091543/NHS-advice-periods-goes-woke-Advice-refers-people-bleed.html
