A lot of the group identity of womanhood comes from having a shared experience of being treated in a certain way since birth, through childhood and the entrance into puberty, where "YOU CAN REPRODUCE" is a defining feature of your relationship to the world.
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THAT BEING SAID I feel like I need to clarify that I am happy to respect the gender identity of trans women, I don't mind using whatever pronouns anybody wants, and I believe their accounts of their felt gender.
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also that being said i don't really feel like a woman and I don't understand what people mean when they feel like a gender. I don't know what it means to feel like a gender.
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This standard also excludes some cis women with weird upbringings, which I think suggests that "woman" isn't the best name for the category of people you're talking about.
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I'm inclined to think that certain staples are near-universal - the dynamic of women having sexual value, and existing in a world where men can benefit from accessing it. Maybe a weird upbringing that was entirely women, with no men involved, might be an exception?
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I think a lot of them aren't, but occasionally they kind of are - mostly discussion or support-based ones.
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It makes sense when it comes to those specific experiences, but why go the step further and make the identity all about that one manner of experience?
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I have sympathies with both the left and right, and strong disagreements with both.
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