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   Kit Arvizu (thekitmalone@hoosier.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 01:10:26 JST Kit Arvizu

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   It also sounds weirdly condescending. Like, "well they *say* they're women so ok" ... listen women can be trusted to know if they are women.

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     Kit Arvizu (thekitmalone@hoosier.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 01:10:27 JST Kit Arvizu

     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.

     Bill repeated this.