Sorry if there is already a thread about this twitter hashtag which seems to have developed in response to the billboard.
There’s someone arguing the definition includes those who were ‘wrongly’ assigned male at birth using the Wikipedia definition of woman as supporting evidence.
Loads of posts saying I was born male but grew to be a woman. I am an #adulthumanfemale
(There’s one great post from a trans man who says accepting their brith sex was key to accepting themselves as trans.)
It’s just baffling. Open and brazen re-writing of language to mean something else.it doesn’t make any sense. X means this (oh and also this, even though it doesn’t fit at all with that first bit of the definition.)
I feel really riled up. I don’t fit their definition of woman. If people born male at birth can also be a woman then women don’t exist. Erasure. Trans women are trans women. I support their right to be and exist and be treated fairly. Women are women.
I am a woman. I have a vagina, I menstruated, I writhed in physical and emotional agony when I miscarried my second baby, I carried two children and bore them, my breasts made milk to feed them, I get treated differently to men because of my physical sex. Not all women experience those things but those things can only be experienced by a woman. They are key to my experience of being a woman.