For those who think that trans women should be resented by other women

No . . . it's . . . not. Leftists declaring that dogs are cats, doesn't mean that they meow or have retractable claws.

So, since you are so wise in the ways of womanhood, consider the edge cases. Is someone who has had a hysterectomy still a woman? Is someone born with intersex genitalia a woman? If they were assigned female at birth? If they weren't but have the XY chromosome? What about someone who has an XY chromosome but is insensitive to feminizing hormones, and so fails to develop any female secondary sexual characteristics?

The things that make us what we are are tremendously complicated, even (or especially) on the biological level. It is not always as simple as looking at the chromosomes. I'm not (unlike some people on the right) DECLARING that any particular people are women; I'm just not willing to kick them out of womanhood if they themselves tell me they're women. Big tent; listening, not prescribing; individual self-determination: I feel that those are the virtues I'd like to cultivate and to see around me.

Baby/bath/toss. If you find that reply confusing then it applies to your microscopic nitpicking. Exceptions will ALWAYS be found . . . but those are the outlier exceptions and not the norm. Current leftist philosophy punishes, damages, or destroys the norm in favor of the rare outliers, in the utterly warped name of equity.

Well said 👏

Thanks.

You're right: statistically speaking, both intersex and trans people are quite rare. But (speaking as a cis biological woman) we don't lose anything by acknowledging the edge cases. Cribbing from the philosophy of common law, “the law holds that it is better that 10 guilty persons escape, than that 1 innocent suffer.” Even if the kid trying to go to the bathroom of their professed gender is only 1 in 100 or 1000, I'd like that innocent not to suffer.