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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In this way I don't feel like trans women are in my group identity of womanhood, because they didn't go through those experiences - and I have mixed feelings about their presence in spaces designed specifically for support around those experiences.
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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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That's approximately what I meant, yeah. Definitely edge cases, but it happens.