That Trans Thread

[The Architect Of Fate]

These days right-wingers are running around with a gotcha "what's a woman " as if they have the ultimate weapon way of delegitimizing Trans people. The obvious counter is simply to point out that as far as gender is concerned woman is simply a self-identifier this has the utility of covering all women and avoiding needless stereotypes. But the right, of course, dislike this and insist that their definition which conveniently excludes Trans People is the only right one because it's been the definition for a long time (argument from antiquity anyone?) but I have yet to see them come up with an actual objection to this definition.

I believe their objection is that chicks with dicks are icky.  They used the same objection for homosexuality.

Generally, try and say the idea of woman as a  self identifier is useless (despite it having the clear use of being a self identifier which somehow isn't useful)