@JohnHuffam1812
? Because it doesn't actually answer anything, just poses another question. So no, it's not understandable. Could you actually answer it?
I thought it was pretty clear? Instead of living as a woman I should have said living as a transwoman.
It appears that all the antiwoke people find using the right language very important when its something they think is important.
Leaving aside the nasty little (incorrect) jibe “anti woke”, the reason female-centered Feminists think having a clear definition of the word “woman” in “living as a woman” or “trans women are women” matters is not because we are somehow all lexical fetishists, but because Woman is the word used in the legal definitions of our rights and in the other formal and informal definitions of spaces, provisions and opportunities that exist to
counteract the continuous unfair risks and limitations that act of the female-bodied in a default male society.
If one wants to change a law or a convention, one can, as the gay rights and gay marriage movement did, walk up honestly and say “this is wrong, we challenge it, let there be an open public debate about it, let there be election manifestos, and let’s get an unfair law changed.”
Or one can, as the Genderist movement is doing with Women’s rights, opportunities and protections, leave the law as it stands but agitate to change the meaning of the words on which the law depends and get the effect of the law entirely changed without ever engaging in an open, fair and honest debate about the consequences of that change, indeed by denouncing any attempt to do so as an act of bigotry against the newly added “women” even though these have nothing to do with the group envisioned when the law was defined.
So, would I care if trans women were to use the word “women” alongside open acknowledge that they are not female and expect no access to female-only spaces, rights, protections and opportunities? Of course not. In fact in that context I believe the conversation about what it is to live “as a woman” would be empowering and enlightening for both groups.
But that is not what is going on. The Genderist movement is on the one hand dressing it up “just courtesy, just a word” but on the other using acceptance of that “just a word” as the justification to entirely demolish single sex provisions and negate the validity of femaleness as something of political significance and deserving of voice.
So right now, yes language, and exactly “what is a woman” matter very much.