Are the old meanings of the words woman and man redundant?

[Thadthimes]

Various dictionary definitions seem
to have made the words woman and man redundant.

In short.

woman = XX chromosomes, adult human female (including extremely rare cases of other chromosomal configurations but always without the SRY genes)

woman = XY chromosomes, adult human male (including extremely rare cases of other chromosomal configurations but always with the SRY gene) but believe and feels they are XX and all the associated characteristics of an adult human female.

man = XY chromosomes, adult human male (including extremely rare cases of other chromosomal configurations but always with the SRY gene)

man = XX chromosomes, adult human female (including extremely rare cases of other chromosomal configurations but always without the SRY genes) but believe and feel they are XY.

If this was a venn diagram I’m not sure it would work.

AIBU to think we just need new words for the old biological meanings of these categories to save confusion?

Oh my! The word 'assigned' really is the wrong word to use, as many of us have pointed out.

You're right that no-one can change sex though.

You can't be this naive and I think you are on a wind-up.

When it comes to “trans women are women” this should be borne in mind…

This is called sea-lioning.

The only people whose sex was ever 'assigned at birth' were a tiny subgroup of people with DSD who were born with truly ambiguous genitalia in the days before genetic testing and other medical advances enabled doctors to work out what sex these babies actually were and what condition they had.

In these circumstances the doctor would 'assign' the baby as either male or female. This 'assignment' generally went along with traumatic, non-consensual 'corrective' surgery to make the baby's genitals more closely match the category to which they had been assigned. Most were 'assigned' female because it's easier to surgically remove something than to construct something.

Those were the bad old days.

The current usage is not 'the official term' it's TRA propaganda. It's designed to make people think that sex is arbitrary or a spectrum or in some other way not clear cut or not important. It's yet another example of TRAs appropriating the experience of people with DSDs for their own ends - something they've been doing since at least the early 1940s.

Well, it's clear that you know less than fuck all then.

This.

Also there wasn't a doctor at the birth of either of my DC. There was a midwife but she didn't come with me to register the birth.

Tough transwomen are legally and biologically men regardless if what they want. The world and language doesn't revolutionary around what they want and the sooner they get used to that fact the better because other people's rights matter

People with DSDs have asked repeatedly to not be included as some kind of evidence that sex is not binary. They are outliers, v rare and nothing to do with the trans debate.

I will not call a man a woman. Not a tall woman, not a blue woman, not a bepenised woman, not any kind of woman.

Properly speaking, a trans woman should be a female person with the attribute of being trans (ie who thinks of herself as the opposite sex), just as a left-handed woman is a female person with the attribute of being left-handed. But the trans juggernaut has driven roughshod over language and has appropriated for men the language used to describe women, in their journey to appropriate womanhood and women's spaces. Well I won't go along with it. Woman, together with all its prefixes, is taken.