”biological sex is real, it is a sexed body”
@beachcitygirl I hope you are still reading. I totally agree with your statement here. I’ve paraphrased, but I think it’s pretty accurate.
To me, that is what a woman is. A female human. Nothing more, nothing less.
To those who say I’m reducing a woman to her genitalia, well, no. I mean, how would I describe a person? Well, a person is a human. A mammal who walks upright, 2 arms and legs, a certain number of chromosomes…that kinda thing. Would you say to me oh a human being is so much more than a chunk of muscle and bone and skin? Well, of course they are! A human has a personality, feelings, emotions, etc…. And of course a woman is more than a vagina and ovaries. Just like a man is more than his bollocks. I can agree with that, and know that at a basic level, a biological male is a man, and a biological female is a woman.
It’s been said that being a woman is not a feeling. I used to agree with that. But I’m not so sure now. There are lots of feelings women have that a male will never have.
The feeling of desperately not wanting to be pregnant
The feeling of desperately wanting to be pregnant
Periods
labour pain
the pain associated with knowing your body is not capable of carrying and birthing a child
the joy of holding your blood covered newborn, fresh from your body
Menopausal night sweats
Trans women are not and will never be women, The best and most charitable point I can get to is acknowledging that they reeeeealy want to be women, but they’re not, and that makes them very unhappy. Some of them will ‘pass’ well enough and that makes them happy and content.
Trans women will never, ever really understand what it is to be a woman. I’m currently going through menopause. I’m up to my armpits in it. And compared to others, my symptoms aren’t too bad. Even women who haven’t been through menopause don’t get it. They just don’t. I didn’t. And they won’t, until they experience it. Only then will they get it. Your argument might be well, there are loads of women who sail through menopause with barely a hot flush. That’s true. Lucky them. They’ll never get it either!
I’ve never experienced the pain of miscarriage, of endometriosis, of my child dying in utero at 4 weeks or 35 weeks’ gestation, of never falling pregnant and giving birth, of labour that goes for days, of cervical or uterine cancer. But I know women who have. They experienced these things because they were women. Because only women experience these things.
I’m not reducing a woman to her biology. I’m simply acknowledging biology.