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As the poll results filter in, I want you to look back and notice how much disagreement there is over something as simple as a chair. I would bet that more than a few people even changed their answer to #1 on #5 when it was revealed it was an AI image. Same image. Same person. Same quiz. Two different answers.

Remember this exercise the next time some asshat transphobe asks you "What is a woman". We can't even agree with each other on what is a chair, let alone something as personal and unique and complex as sex, gender, gender identity, and gender presentation.

"What is a chair" fails, not because the word is meaningless, but because language is fluid and ever changing. A chair is what we say it is. Womanhood is exactly the same. But with one key difference. Women are alive and have agency. Chairs can't self-identify. Women can.

What is a woman? A woman is who she says she is. Even if she doesn't look the way you expect. Even if she doesn't fit the dictionary definition. Even if she can't do a lot of the things most other women can with her body. Even if that identity is for her, and her alone. And yes, even if sometimes she's a bit of a toilet garbage human. She's still a woman, because the one requirement to being a woman is fulfilled:

She says she is.