What does it mean to "identify and live as women"? To me, there is nothing to being a woman to identify into. I know I am a woman because of my biology and basing it on any non-physical attributes is supportive of the sex stereotypes feminism is supposed to fight against. Same with living as women. Is it to use a female name and dress up like women in your society often do and claim to be a woman? If I gave myself a name from another culture and claimed to be of that background, it would still not make me a member of that cultural group. As for clothing, there's nothing intrinsic to them that renders them for women, it's just social roles and expectations again.
I've never seen anybody claim that women who are infertile or have had hysterectomies are somehow less female. This is a strawman.
They do not face the same misogyny as the rest of us, nor would facing that misogyny somehow confer upon them the right to the descriptor woman. In the same way, someone who is straight but regularly taken for gay is entitled to protections that were set up to protect people from homophobia, but not entitled to claim that being treated as if they were gay makes them actually gay despite only being into the other sex.
Re: Chocolate Box - Letter 3T1L
What does it mean to "identify and live as women"? To me, there is nothing to being a woman to identify into. I know I am a woman because of my biology and basing it on any non-physical attributes is supportive of the sex stereotypes feminism is supposed to fight against. Same with living as women. Is it to use a female name and dress up like women in your society often do and claim to be a woman? If I gave myself a name from another culture and claimed to be of that background, it would still not make me a member of that cultural group. As for clothing, there's nothing intrinsic to them that renders them for women, it's just social roles and expectations again.
I've never seen anybody claim that women who are infertile or have had hysterectomies are somehow less female. This is a strawman.
They do not face the same misogyny as the rest of us, nor would facing that misogyny somehow confer upon them the right to the descriptor woman. In the same way, someone who is straight but regularly taken for gay is entitled to protections that were set up to protect people from homophobia, but not entitled to claim that being treated as if they were gay makes them actually gay despite only being into the other sex.