Listening to @MForstater talk at #WPUKLondon about how impossible it will be for International Development Agencies to do their job, if there is no word to describe femaleness. “If we can’t name things, these organisations can’t do their jobs”.
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"cis women" Now, wasn't that easy?
You think these issues only affect people with female bodies AND gender identity, but not those who only have female bodies but lack the innate internal "woman" essence and feel somewhere else on the gender spectrum ??pic.twitter.com/veZ1cCBBCs
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But the words you use exclude people too!
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That's the way definitions work. The definition of woman does not include male people. This does not preclude treating people in the way they want to be treated in many situations, wherever sex doesn't matter.
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you might be looking for the term "AFAB". but I can see where it was easier to assume that you were the first person to think there was a need to refer to this concept.
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There is already a term thanks, its "woman". Do you think no one noticed or named that concept until recently? (No I'm not the first person
) "AFAB" is a term related to people with rare and often traumatic intersex conditions. I'm won't appropriate it. - 1 more reply
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Delightful thing about language is it can be in all sorts of different ways to identify what you're talking about. Some women's issues affect all who present as female, some affect all with uteruses, some affect all with breasts. Life is complex, language can cope with that.
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