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What A Woman Is - by Aella - Knowingless - https://aella.substack.com/

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The existence of trans people is a lot of things, but happens to also be a spikey thought experiment that jabs at our concepts of identity. “What is a woman?” “Someone who can get pregnant.” “So no infertile people are women?”

The existence of trans people is a lot of things, but happens to also be a spikey thought experiment that jabs at our concepts of identity. “What is a woman?” “Someone who can get pregnant.” “So no infertile people are women?” “Well no - okay someone who has the equipment to get pregnant.” “So women can stop being women by getting hysterectomies?” “No - all right, XX chromosomes.” “What if I’m a woman - I was born female, have female genitalia, and was raised female - and I discover I have Swyer syndrome, which means I have XY chromosomes. Was I really never a woman this whole time?”…

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