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Isn't this the crux of the issue? We used to have a clear definition of "woman", people with XX chromosomes who have the genetic code to produce ovum and bear y

Isn't this the crux of the issue? We used to have a clear definition of "woman", people with XX chromosomes who have the genetic code to produce ovum and bear young. But now, there is no accepted definition of woman - because of trans-people, or intersex, or people say that women who are sterile are still women. And they are all correct. So there is no definition of "woman" so anyone can declare their womanhood - which means there will eventually be no womens clubs, womens shelters, womens sports or womens scholarships - because without a definition of what a woman is, anyone who claims womanhood can have those too. Is that a problem? Who knows, and only time will tell.

AstralStorm 5y ago
You can even dig up 16th century dictionaries that were more nuanced than that. (Woman literally meant married one then. Maiden was used for unmarried. Wife came later.) Current dictionaries mix the terms by the way. Sterile women were still women. As typically were some other accidents of nature like testosterone-resistant males. Language changes over time, and so we assigned the word woman recently more to a gender rather than social status or sex. Polish is more permissive in this particular "pregnant woman" alleged issue, we have a gendered noun equivalent "pregnant" or long form "woman in pregnancy". Though nobody is yet using form "man in pregnancy" or "pregnant man" except as a joke.