“If we allow people to self-determine their genders, then anyone can say that they are a man or a woman!” What’s behind this fear is an assumption that there is one stable and shared experience of manhood or womanhood and that if we move beyond this one definition, man and woman will stop having meaning. But the fact of the matter is that there are many experiences of manhood and womanhood. No individual woman experiences all the issues that every woman can go through. A wealthy white woman has a fundamentally different experience of womanhood than a working-class woman of color. A man born in
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