To go back to the earlier post about how gender identity is subjective, and then someone else saying pain is also subjective...
I disagree that what pain means is subjective. What pain is, what we mean when we tell each other that we are experiencing pain, when we set out to inflict pain, what that means has an explicit meaning that is not subjective. We all mean the same thing. It is universal. Describing the level of pain you are in is subjective, but what the word pain means is not.
The issue with gender identity and so the word woman isn't that we are subjectively reporting our own levels of womanhood. The problem is that what a woman is no longer has an explicit meaning.
If I say, well I am a woman, and I am very nurturing, like Star Wars, like chewing gum and don't like tennis so that is what a woman is then that is hugely subjective, but it is also very explicit.
We can now debate whether that is what a woman is, run empirical tests to decide how many women there are based on how many people are those things I listed, and each of us can now, based on our own subjective internal experience, decide if we are a woman according to that explicit understanding of the word.
But people who believe in gender identity refuse to explicitly say what a woman is. I can think of no other category people are expected to put themselves into which has no definition. I don't care how subjective people are in saying what a woman is as a gender identity, but I think they should have the decency to be explicit as to what they mean.
Because while they're not, I'm going to assume it just means the old version of what women are meant to feel internally - bit stupid, subservient, not too good with numbers, very emotional, bit silly. Because the idea of woman, now it doesn't mean a person with a female body, can't just have been plucked from thin air. You must be referring to something you expect us all to understand.