TerfyMcTerface - you've said exactly what I was just thinking.
Mansplaining has reached an extreme level.
I agree with this - "A woman is more than a vagina, than her ability to bear children, the gender she was assigned at birth, a socio-economic class, marital status or sexual history" - but even so, I still believe that my vagina, my vulva, my clitoris, my womb, my ovaries, my ability to bear children (coming to an end due to age), my birth gender, and everything else and so much more, make me a woman in a way that a feeling or an outfit do not.
A woman might not be able to bear children, a woman might have had a hysterectomy, or had her breasts removed because of breast cancer, or god forbid be subjected to FGM, but her born experience still makes her a woman in a way that feelings and outfits don't.
And I am fully supportive of them in their experience as women. Monroe also says straight women should stand up for lesbians, and I do. For example I don't believe that lesbians should be forced to have sex with someone who identifies as a woman but has a penis if she does not want to.
We do not need Monroe to tell us this. I'd say most women are already doing this. I'm doing this within my own family. My cousin with infertility issues. My SIL who just hasn't met the right person to start a family with. My other SIL and my Aunt with breast cancer (which we're now apparently meant to call chest cancer in case we exclude someone). Me, who can get pregnant but who struggles to stay pregnant. My older female relatives going through menopause. My niece faced with keeping her breasts and risking cancer, or having her breasts removed at the age of 20 to take the risk away. The relative who had a hysterectomy, my friend who has begged for one because of health issues.
We're all facing different things but the thing about women is that we get this. We know this. We have a long history of women behind us who stepped up and supported each other. We're women. We don't need to be told how to woman. We've already got this.
I had to look up why L'oreal sacked Monroe. It did remind me of a slogan I saw shared recently though, although from a different company's slogan. It said "Vagina: Maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's none of your business." I think I might be buying a L'oreal product in appreciation now.