A woman is an individual who identifies as a woman.
But how? what is the criteria. there are billions of adult human females on this planet each one is a unique individual, what happens when all these women disagree on what makes them a woman, let alone men who decide they 'feel' like a woman. also do you not think this is an insult to the billions of women, actual female adults who have faced abuse and oppression due to being women?
Transwomen do not know the lived experiences of women, how it effects their opportunities, livelihood, health, prospects, the same way women wont know what mens lived experiences are. Both will experience society and life in a very unique way due to their sex and to try and co opt female experiences is a joke
I understand how that definition is tautological, , but as a matter of identity that's all that there is to it. What is a basketball fan? someone who likes basketball. What is a stoner? someone who identifies with the stoner subculture. What it means to feel like a woman varies from person to person
woman is a woman, an adult human female, there is no philosophical reasoning for what it means, woman means adult human female, someone born female, with a body designed to create large gametes that survives childhood.
identifying as a basketball fan is different from being a woman. women are born to be women, there is no choice involved, a basketball fan is a choice, comparing the who is again an insult to women and girls who face abuse, torture, death and oppression because they are female
I can't say what feeling like a woman is like anymore than I could say what feeling like a man is like, since I'm just one person. I'd expect that there are just as many answers to that question as there are women on the planet, and my answer is that I don't know.
maybe because being a man or woman is not a feeling but a biological fact
If you identify as a woman, you're a woman. I never knew that I felt like a woman; I just identify as one. How does anyone know that they're a juggalo or a weaboo? They just decide that they are. Obviously, that explanation belies the dysphoria that frequently prompts people to transition, though.
Again your comparing womanhood to fads, preferences and choices. no woman chooses to be a woman, if being a woman was a feeling or a choice do you not think girls would identify out of female genital mutilation, stoning and hanging for being raped, the sex trade, infanticide, forced marriages, child marriages. would it not make sense?
To say being a woman is like choosing to be a rock band fan just shows you are not a woman, your just projecting your fetishes and fantasies of what you think women are, a fad for your entertainment and play acting
What word isn't a fiction? Words are imagined by people, not dug out of the ground. We don't need any word; words serve a social utility, and clearly to have this discussion you would need a term for not trans. I like cis because it's short and less clunky than "doesn't have the serious mental illness of gender dysphoria," which is also not entirely accurate because plenty of transgender people don't experience gender dysphoria at all.
Words have meanings and consequences, you expect people to conform to your delusions yet ignore people making a distinct point they do not want to play along. men and women are not cis, a subgroup. they are the default, the real deal, they are biologically male and female you know man (noun) adult human male/ woman (noun) adult human female. If your identity needs others to change their language then its not a personal choice its authoritarian and most people refuse it and its label cis
oh and cis has nothing to do with sex or gender its a chemistry term.
Transgender women are women who are transgender. Tall women are women who are tall, and cisgender women are women who are not trans. If the term cis really hurts your feelings that much, well, my condolences, but transgender women are here to stay.
transwomen are not women because they are not female, they will never be female, they are male. Sex cannot be changed. no mammal especially humans can change sex. transwomen are trasnwomen or more realistically they are male.
transwomen are like all fads, these men who are desperate for attention due to their narcissism will realise they arent as special with every new transwoman and will find a new way to get attention, contra points is learning this lesson right now with ollie the stalker
I hope that people like you will change their opinion, and the term will cease to seem like a slur to you, but it's just not going anywhere. A more politically correct term for cisgender people may develop, since it appears that you people want your own version of political correctness to be enacted, but that's not likely to happen.
Most people are waking up to what your movement is a cult. Most people were ok with trans people but since the gender cultists tried to force people to change language, spaces and gaslight people the empathy is gone.
Its not about political correctness its about changing language to suit a small mentally ill minority, to validate their narcissism. Men and women say no, respect and choice is a two way street, we dont owe you using the correct term, in fact when people try and push cis i revert to their sex and ignore their wants, because if they cannot accept my choices i wont play along
