ok so what defines being born female?
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it sounds like you are saying you believe the definition of womanhood is "having, at birth, some physical anatomical structure that is sufficiently similar to the physical structure of a body that can produce eggs." is that right?
that's reasonably close. I don't think "sufficiently similar" is quite right though - sounds like a Tesco delivery substitution! It's more.. the fetus developed in the uterus along a M or F pathway resulting in all or some of the working parts of one or other reproductive type
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If we didn't have a word to denote the class of people with the potential to get pregnant and the class of people with the potential to impregnate them we'd have to invent them...
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Because no one can verify a person identity. So then you are left with identifying "women" and "girl" with things like wears dresses, high heels, makeup, caring, kind, etc... Can you see how regressive this is?
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ok, but the problem with this kind of approach is, now you need to define "the M or F pathway" and also determine the cutoff point for how much of the working appartus counts as "some". So you still have not nailed down a strict objective definition here.
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This line of argument seems a bit of a parlor trick, in so far as very few of our useful concepts have no ambiguity at a border. Eg “death” is also very hard to define, but surely we agree that there are two states called: living and dead.
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