You can colour me totally surprised that the good people of development twitter (at least most who've chatted with me) say they believe that male people can be woman, in some real sense. And that insisting we need a word for female people is old hat (and mean and not inclusive).
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In practice tho we can't see or test feelings in ppl's heads. So we judge how ppl express through clothes, hair, makeup, voice etc. So we end up saying 'a woman is someone who wears feminine clothing etc.. Rather than a woman is
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So we end up being "gender essentialist" (associating womanhood w having a 'ladylike brain' or conforming to gender stereotypes) instead of recognising women as a sex w particular needs (reproductive rights, privacy) & who have been oppressed as a sex thru prescribed gender roles
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. Gender can be two things - a feeling in yr head of being a man/woman, and the expression of gendered roles - wearing makeup & heels or a shirt and tie, acting kind vs acting tough