Last night I sat through a breakdown of a study of women voters where the speaker (who had a lot of really awesome insights, otherwise) kept referring to the set as "self-identified women."
Can we just stop using constructions such as "identifies as" or "self-identified" when we're talking about women?
Trans women are women, and to me those constructions always feel like a covert way of making our womanhood sound sketchy and inauthentic.
Kit Malone /
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