Are “intersexed” or “transsexual” women REAL women?
A. Depends on what you mean by “real.” There is a group of that call themselves “Womyn Born Womyn” who claim that anyone who was not raised as a girl or had a “female life experience” and cannot bear children is not a “real woman.” Thier definition is specifically aimed at exempting Male-to-Female Transsexuals as “women.” Many men and women hold similar beliefs, to some extent, by often citing that transsexuals cannot have children. And many of the medical precautions within the Standards of Care are based on the assumption that everyone wishes to have children. This is sometimes called the “Procreation Prejudice.” Thier logic, though, is full of holes. First of all, not even every woman is capable of bearing children. An estimated 300 million women on the planet are barren and would not meet the “reproductive requirements” the WBW hold. They also cannot define what being “raised as a girl” or a “female life experience” is. An almost equal number of men throughout the world are similar
