Ana Kasparian's "I'm a woman" Tweet

[Ms. Toad]

90. No one is telling her she can't identify as a woman. Period.

No one is telling you that you cannot self-identify as a woman. This conversation is not about self-identification, it is about being inclusive when generically addressing services/products/activities which are tied to the anatomy one was born with. Kasparian is deliberately twisting an inclusive general description into a non-existent prohibition on her own self-identification. That is gaslighting, pure and simple.

The point is that trans or non-binary individuals assigned female at birth menstruate, give birth, etc. The label "woman" no longer applies to them. Many of them still menstruate. Many of them still have a uterus. Some of them give birth. Some services and products are tied to the anatomy one is born with (access to abortion, birth control, giving birth, dealing with menstruation, going through menopause, dealing with a high risk for breast cancer). The inclusive approach when discussing things which apply to individuals with a variety of genders is to use a gender-neutral term (people/individuals), which includes trans men and non-binary individuals who still need those care/services/products/.

This particular conversation is just gussied up version of the womym-born-womyn crap I first encountered at the Michigan Women's Music Festival closer to four decades ago than a decade and a half ago, in that it is now addressed to excluding AFAB men and non-binary individuals from care/services/products they still need based on their anatomy. And, as a secondary benefit, it continues to imply that trans women aren't real women because they can't give birth, menstruate, etc.