The audacity of treating RGB's words as transphobic! For all those who keep saying we should be happy with "women and" when we're talking about issues only female people experience, I would like to ask why do you think that ACLU did not use an unadulterated RGB quote here and then add that female transgender people are, of course, included in the point they're making? Would have been easy, no? Would have been less disrespectful to RGB's memory, no? I mean that's what's really upsetting people on that thread.
Because the word "woman" must be divorced from female biology. Because "women and" is not the endpoint of this language crusade. The endpoint is to erase the word "woman" altogether when talking about female people.
In my view, if you're willing to accede to the demand to use "women and", you agree, however tacitly, that women are an identity category and not the female sex class, and you are willingly taking a step on the path towards female erasure.