What Makes a Woman?

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Unfortunately, biological characteristics does differentiate what makes a woman. The reality of a female’s anatomy when compared to a male anatomy is what drives society to allocate certain roles and responsibilities to the gender. A trans person cannot be considered a woman because the roles outlined by society does not make a woman. The roles women were assigned and the hardships they faced were all because she was ultimately labeled as female. A woman could not change her biological sex because it was never that simple. So we go back to the notion that woman should be defined only by biological terms, since only those who fit the female description are subject to the rules and expectations of society.

Society created gender terms to identify male and female and to further define their roles and expectations. Trans people argue for women to reconceptualize our meaning and to accept transgender woman as a real woman. Society can always adjust the meaning of a woman, but it can never change the fact that the interpretation is derived by inaccurate implications made on the female anatomy. Other trans people want to be accepted as woman because they claim their brain was placed in the wrong body. Brains between men and women differ only because society gives each gender separate roles which makes their learning experiences different. Some people will never understand that being a woman means having certain experiences that are much different than man. The roles and experience were shaped for woman who were determined female. Woman should be defined solely in terms of biology, since all the other meanings do not make a woman, only being female does.

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Works Cited

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Mey. "It's Time For People to Stop Using the Social Construct of "Biological Sex" to Defend

Their Transmisogyny | Autostraddle." Autostraddle. Autostraddle, 05 June 2014. Web. 01

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