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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I think a lot of them aren't, but occasionally they kind of are - mostly discussion or support-based ones.
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Right. I wonder at what age trans women start passing as women, and what percent of trans women end up passing.
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