What defines a woman?

OP gone MIA, then. Probably got shot down.

Although I get the impression that the OP probably knows the answer and is just fishing for interesting replies, I'm going to rise to the bait by saying that I think the simplest biological explanation is best - xx/xy chromosomes.

Keeping it simple means that girls and women can be as wonderfully complex and varied as we are in appearance, opinions, abilities, ethnicities, capabilities, jobs, clothing, interests, sexualities, etc., and still be human females.

And boys and men, despite their appearance, opinions, abilities, ethnicities, capabilities, jobs, clothing, interests, sexualities, etc., will always be human males.

Works for me!

Apologies to all for my sense of humour bypass.

Hope so or my thoughts need to be radically altered!

Just to clarify things for Wyvern, a post-op transwoman will also have had a orchiectomy, AKA castration*. If you (general you, not picking on anyone specific) have been castrated, it rather proves that you are male as only a male can be castrated.

As mammals cannot change sex, a male person who has been castrated remains male just as every castrated male dog/cat/sheep/horse/other mammal does.

*Removing 'neuctcals' (or whatever the human version is called) from a transman (biological female who identified as male) who is now detransitioning is not the same thing. They are female and remain female what ever identity they have or don't have (see point above about mammals not changing sex)

Question is invalid. Women are adult females and men are adult males (girls/boys for children). It should be what biological characteristics do all females have that differentiates them from males. As a clue the ability to give birth (and all associated biology) is female, males cannot do this.

I don't understand the list. If it's a lsit of creatures where sex is either hermaphrodyte or can be changed then DSDs don't belong in it as DSDs are sex-specific. Also, if it is, you missed out worms.

So I'm a woman? I don't think you've got that quite right. Few women would want me in women's spaces, and I wouldn't want to push into those spaces, or even to be invited in.

Because there is at least one and it involves gametes.

Do you remember that ad where the little kid wants to be a tomato?

I think it might be...
My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump
My lovely lady lumps

Said this to my DH the other day - I want to identify as a 65 year old so I can retire and draw my pension

Yup.

This is very true. Just because a male has their penis flayed, inverted and reinserted as an artificial cavity in their groin doesn’t mean it is no longer a penis.

Women have an organ which can grow a whole human. Women have a different anatomy to men which allows them to carry, birth and feed said human.

Thats the bingo card freebies for the what is a woman question.

Since the Gender Critical Movement's ideology declares that sex is binary - there is no spectrum- an individual without a penis and outer female genitals is by default designated female. A post op transgender woman is categorised as female therefore using the same criteria that categorised her as male at birth.

This ^ type of gotcha and the idea that humans dont come in 1of 2 class therefore are hard to sex.

Some transwomen have thie penis cut up, inverted and made into a pouch in their nether-regions that they need to dilate to keep open. They still have their penis as it still exists.

As we are doing songs, I am now thinking of 'Poor butchered penis' (poor butch-ered-pen-is) which should be sung to this tune -

Why stick to biological sex? Why can’t we claim a different bio age? Grey wig, I want my pension now please.

Species is different, I will go and run with the tigers in the forest, they won’t notice as I tattooed stripes and grafted a tail.

What is the biological characteristic shared by all women men that differentiates them from men women?

If you can answer me that first I'll try really hard to answer yours. Deal?

Go and ask your mum.

I notice in the other thread by the OP, it's 34 pages long, with 838 replies, 2 of which are from the OP. This is a pump and dump poster.

No. Have to centre the mighty peen!

All the lovely trans-women,
Where do they all come from?

We need to step away from their game of defining. Cosmetic surgery and clothing does not maketh a woman.This was never a question in the past. Even a little child inherently knows, even if they cannot articulate it and have no medical knowledge. These things are the literal basic fundamentals of life on our plant for every species. We have way more important things to worry about and need to stand firm, laugh at the nonsense and not give up womens rights, because they belong to women.

Funny, isn't it? Throughout human history, human beings across cultures and time have all managed to understand the difference between male and female.
Now, suddenly, some people apparently just cannot work it out. What utter nonsense.
OP knows what the difference is, so does every other person on this thread. Pretending it's suddenly deeply confusing is just silly. We all know.