Please people if someone asks you "What is a woman" the answer is a person who identifies

[Maraya1969]

as a woman. That is it. Physicality doesn't matter and you can remind people that plenty of women undergo hysterectomies and lose their breasts because of cancer or the knowledge that they will eventually get cancer.

A trans woman I know wrote her story online and she told how one day when she was very young she heard her father saying, "We need to do something about that boy and they way he acts so feminine" She had 3 other brothers and she remembers thinking, "I wonder which of my brothers he is talking about?

Why did she think he was talking about one of her brothers? Because she was a girl so it couldn't be her! Her identity was of a girl. It never occurred to her that she had been labelled a boy, although she would find out later in life. And that is when the suffering started

[TommyT139]

2. It's more complicated than chromosomes

...and mostly irrelevant. Gender is not sex. Even sex is not a "hard biological truth."

The post is about women, not "females."

[NoRethugFriends]

4. There is not. There are other combination other than XX and XY. Educate yourself

[TommyT139]

8. A worthy topic for discussion

...but the original post was about women (and I suppose men), not what constitutes markers of sex.

But to the chromosome chat, I suggest that other factors play in, like hormones, the interplay of chromosomes and hormones on the body's development, and so on. My chromosomes might be XX, although I've never had them tested, but I guarantee you would not think I belong in the women's restroom.

Anyway, if the Trumpists get their way, presumed chromosomal sex will be the determiner, so to me that's reason alone to look for a more nuanced perspective.

They really seem obsessed with the topic, when really one's chromosomes don't really impact daily life much at all, for the vast majority of people anyway.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. No. There are many other options besides XX/XY, and genotype is not phenotype.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. NOTHING is determinative of gender or "male/female"'and that's the point

[Skittles]

9. all I know is

the people who "ask" that question don't give a FUCK about women

[misanthrope]

10. And here I thought the correct answer to that question was

"A subset of the general group of human beings."

[LastDemocratInSC]

12. Scientific American has a good article on this topic:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-redefined-the-idea-of-2-sexes-is-overly-simplistic1/

[GaYellowDawg]

19. That article is fantastic. Is there a way to share it without the link?

I'm in my final year of teaching next year, and I would like to hand this paper out to my classes because I'll basically be able to take risks that someone else couldn't.

[LastDemocratInSC]

20. I don't know the answer to your question.

I just tried to open the article and got a page about "Already got a subscription?". That's the first time I have seen that. I've shared the link with others on several occasions and neither I nor they got that page. Maybe you can find it in a library.

[LastDemocratInSC]

21. A followup ...

I can open the article using my desktop computer using the URL in the first message. I get the subscription page on my Android device. I know the article was published on October 22, 2018. The author is Claire Ainsworth.

The subscription page has an offer of 90 days of access for $1.

[Iris]

29. Check your library databases

[Walleye]

13. A person asks that, ask them first to define the word man

[Irish_Dem]

14. I don't care how people identify and what their reasons are.

People can do what they want for whatever reason in terms of self identification.

Doesn't hurt me in the least.

[Irish_Dem]

23. I think Tim Walz said it best: In Minnesota we mind our own damn business.

[Irish_Dem]

25. I think Walz handled it the best.

Make it a non issue.
Not our business.

Also I do not think this is the issue we should be addressing.

We should be asking why did we let PutinTrumpGOP steal the election and how did they do it.

This is the only issue we should be addressing.
The rest is BS.
Don't fall for it.

[RoeVWade]

15. I believe gender, sexual or biological identity don't always align perfectly, so, that's what I say I believe.

And that everyone deserves the same amount of respect.

If someone wants to make me give another answer, that's their problem, and I actually do believe what I said.

[Ferryboat]

16. My answer?

Someone who you will never have an intimate relationship with.

[dweller]

17. The question " what is a woman " is incorrect

The correct question is “ who is a woman “

Discussion in depth here :
https://www.the-reframe.com/shows-of-weakness/

Question: What is a woman?
Answer: A woman is not a what. A woman is a who.


✌🏻

[DSandra]

26. One should answer: "What is a closeminded bigot? I'm talking to one!"

The fuck with a privileged white man like Matt Walsh who thinks he can police womanhood!

[Maru Kitteh]

31. This should be said louder. POLICING WOMANHOOD is the primary objective

Got to keep the cattle in the pen.

[tulipsandroses]

27. Anyone asking probably really doesn't want an answer. I would just say mind your fucking business.

Don't you have a cross to burn or some white sheets to wash?
I don't have any more patience left for these fools.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

33. Right there with you.

[DenaliDemocrat]

28. If someone asks me this question

I’m not answering. It’s not my business what people call themselves.

[Fla_Democrat]

30. I can't imagine that question coming up in my world.

Maybe I live a sheltered life.

[KentuckyWoman]

32. You be you....

I could hunt and fish better than any male in the family and could handle a team better than them too... in a Sunday dress even. I was so fortunate to grow up in a family that encouraged us kids to just be who we are. Everyone deserves that.

Recently encountered a younger who told me they were "they, them" and I tripped over it quite a lot. I was lucky they gave me grace due to being 80 something and trying hard. There will be as next time and hopefully it is easier.

People should be free to just be who they are as long as they aren't mean hateful garbage heads.