How do you define “woman”?

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Didn’t include a “something else” option cause that would be a cop-out.

I firmly say that this ISN’T trolling, just wanted to see some discussion on the topic, because it’s one that I have seen many, many different opinions on.

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So based on the results of this poll, it appears most Atlasians do not believe in the identity of trans people, but still respect them by doing things like using their preferred pronouns. Interesting.

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What is "brain sex"? I am not going to google it for fear of the results.

“Brain sex” is pretty much the idea that, just as their is such thing a “male” body and “female” body, there is also such thing as a “male” brain and ”female” brain, and, just as male bodies and female bodies are different, male brains and female brains are also different (these differences are not often explained in a way that is any near as consistent as the way physical differences between males and females are described, however).

In relation to trans issues, the theory then goes that, in a vast majority of people, their brain sex and body sex are the same. However, in some individuals, their is a mismatch, which is how you get transgender people. It’s important to note that believers of this theory are emphatically against the idea of gender being a social construct.

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Option 5. What else could it be? It's a cultural label we made up.

Just because it’s a cultural label, doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a definition beyond what someone calls themselves. The definition of “black” is also a cultural label, but if a white person started dropping the n-word around you and said “black is just a cultural label, I can call myself black, and that’s 100% legitimate” you would say “black might be a cultural label, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t still have a real definition- one that you don’t fall under.”

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I'm very curious as to how differently a "How would you define 'man'?" thread would go, since most rabid transphobes of both the vanilla and TERF persuasions seem to completely ignore trans men, and having key differences in the experiences required to socially qualify as a "real" man vs. a "real" woman is nearly a cultural universal.

I made this poll with the intention that whatever the results were here could be easily applied to men as well.

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Obviously option #5 is the most correct and most polite.

If a 300 pound woman asked me “Am I fat?” the polite answer would be “no,” despite that being obviously false.