The audacity of this... requesting erasure of word "women".

Ah yes, people who get pregnant and bleed. Now who's reducing people to their biological functions.

It seems like Biological women are only allowed to use the word woman when it involves things that transwomen can do too

Which would imply by logic that biologically female women are not included in this new and inclusive version of womanhood, and that this form of womanhood is not intersectional.

Ok, if the new ground is that female women are other and excluded and separate (from womanhood as defined under this sense), we're back to where we started aren't we? There are females and there are transwomen, they are different groups, with different needs, transwomen wish to have their own definitions and be separate from biological women because of biological difference - I can wholly respect that. Let's relabel as female all the things necessary to make the distinction such as female health care and female changing spaces and crack on with that model.

I was thinking of the female erasure in the trans theories recently and realised that we are all being erased if we define ourselves as women on the basis of the sex of our bodies. That is no longer allowed among the wokerati. Yet erasing the gender identities of others is a bannable crime in social media.

Some people really need to be told no...

Im guessing they haven’t heard that word much,

Yes, I wondered if this might possibly get through to him. Misguided optimism, I guess.

Is it too much to hope that Biden gets to see this obnoxious tweet and that it makes him stop and think?

Clearly, it is appropriate that there exists a short, simple word that denotes half the human population - those of the type from which all human beings came forth at their birth. What word are we to have then? Why should "feminine" people have the word. In fact does that mean that I as a non-feminine woman should be called a man? Why shouldn't the female sex have the word? It so obviously makes sense.

Its all sunshine, let people see what it's really about rather than "we just want to pee".

Step by step, they intend to take everything that belongs to women. They must be amazed at how easy it’s been so far. Every surrender to their demands encourages them to push for more.

100% this.

@Mustreadabook I would have thought women's health is more than that, though? Would it not include mammograms? Sexual health/contraception? Post-natal mental health (e.g. post-natal psychosis, post-natal OCD, post-natal depression)? Treating female victims of male sexual violence? If women's health was just the reproductive system, surely we already have a word for that: "gynaecology."

Three discussed bits of evidence on the board this weekend:

what the world would be like if no c* people existed for a week

the youtuber whose long and detailed rant about the resented privilege of c* (female) women taking resources away from more the deserving types of women includes a version of feminism that has no interest in female people

• This: please can female health care not be included in womens healthcare.

The pattern's pretty obvious.

Step by step, they intend to take everything that belongs to women. They must be amazed at how easy it’s been so far. Every surrender to their demands encourages them to push for more.

Never was Magdalen Burns' "Fuck off you wanker" more appropriate.

But as others have said, I think we're just looking at a raging narcissist on a desperate quest for supply.

I’m not sure I like the term ‘women’s healthcare’ though. Presumable what they actually mean is healthcare related to the female reproductive system. And dispute what they used to think in Victorian times, women do have other health needs too and we are not just a hysterical womb! It’s a euphemism, and could be more descriptive. So you go to ‘female reproductive system healthcare’ for your womb, ‘circulatory system healthcare’ for your heart, ‘male reproductive system’ healthcare for your testicles and prostate. And if you don’t have any of these things then ignore said department.

Just had to go and check definition of woman in dictionary - yes, so far it's still in there

Meant to type "bleed" as a quote.

It’s the natural progression of the current ideology. Everything we’ve fought for in terms of maternity benefits, access to contraception and abortion, subsidised childcare etc can no longer be described as ‘women’s rights’ because that’s triggering. The fact they are relevant to every ‘cis’ woman isn’t enough.

It's ridiculous how people clamouring to be accepted as women are simultaneously lobbying to remove women from language and existence. Which is it? Because I'm starting to feel that TWAW has a silent "only" at the beginning: (only) trans women are women.

Note the increasing intolerance of female people in womanhood.

As a menopausal woman who can no longer get pregnant or bleed, I strongly object to the erasure of the words woman/women.