The gender critical feminist insistence on a straightforward biological definition of women and men, then, relies on an ignorance of cisgender women’s own feminist intellectual history. The idea that a woman is simply an adult human female disregards the fact that the term ‘female’ refers to biological sex, which itself can denote a collection of traits (genitals, gonads, hormones, secondary sex characteristics and chromosomes), some of which can be modified. It also fails to consider that the term ‘female’ can have important social meanings for human beings beyond our reproductive role as
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