As a thought exercise, considering how things might go if women relinquished the word woman, is useful.
What is the real agenda of TRAs?
Do they merely want the word woman for themselves, and for everyone to be able to choose their own identity? Really?
What might happen, hypothetically, if they gained the word woman, and ALL women renounced it?
The word woman would then exclusively come to describe ONLY people with penises and gender beliefs. That would be its new association. It would be entirely disconnected from female biology, and from the billions of female humans.
Would that be acceptable to TRAs? If they got what they claim they want? The right to a word, and the right for everyone (even us?) to self define?
We can all see, in this thought exercise, what would actually happen.
Whatever women decided en masse to adopt as a new identity, based upon biology, would become the new target for takeover by TRAs.
It isn't the word they want. Or the recognition.
What they want is to be associated with adult human females and to use whatever word our language has to name them. They want us to be static and recognisable and NOT PERMITTED to identify away from or distinguish ourselves from them.
And although we can see where the thought exercise concludes, every time, with a cat and mouse pursuit, with the aim of pinning down females so they cannot escape, this has to remain a thought exercise.
Because the concept of female, woman, is so, so obvious and apparent, and REAL, that we cannot dissociate the word from the reality. Not on a large enough scale to make this happen. It has to remain a thought exercise.
TRAs want the word woman, because they know that the association with biology cannot ever be broken in practice. And safe in the knowledge that it is an unbreakable concept, they are free to make whatever claim they want, knowing people will always understand the real meaning. They are free to 'change the definition' because it creates a loophole of sorts on a small enough scale that it is endured and tolerated, despite it being a fiction.
If we try to cede 'woman' we will fail. I understand the temptation, but it won't work.
We need to strengthen the association between the word woman and biology. We can't weaken it, it's impossible. But we can bring that association out from the level where people understand it, an implicit, non cerebral acceptance, into our discourse where its reality is stated explicitly, over, and over and over.
Adult Human Female.