I hate all this belittling of women when we say we don't like what's happening to our identification.
Big sighs and accusations of trans-bashing again.
Those on here who don't see the issue, please watch or read The Handmaid's Tale. Woman - the term referring to biological women is being reduced to an adjunct.
I have absolutely no issue with the terms transmen and transwomen; they are descriptive and enable everyone to understand that a person born as one biological sex is choosing to live life as the opposite gender. I don't think I have come across anyone on these threads claiming anything else.
To try and rewrite biological realities, so that these people can feel included in every reality of being a woman (notice not a man - no-one is trying to erase male terminology that I've seen) is just preposterous. In the same way, that I, a biologically born woman (I refuse to use the term cis as I find it incredibly offensive and redundant) have no idea how it feels to want to live as the opposite gender, and I have no idea what it feels like to have an erection, transwomen can have no idea what it feels like to have periods, or give birth.
It's not discrimination, it's reality. To try and minimise the very real struggles and discrimination that women have gone through over the millennia because of their bodies, and the perception that when we bleed we are unclean, to try and insist that trans women are somehow a part of that, is offensive and demeaning to women who have been through these struggles.
In the same way, it would be offensive and demeaning for me to say to a transwoman that I understand her struggles at feeling trapped in a man's body. I wouldn't be so presumptious, although I can empathise with her.
Really, please open your eyes and see that the eradication of our female terminology is a bad thing for all of us. We are going to be non-men soon.