What is woman?

[Bobby_2021]

A woman = (  Male or Female or Intersex ) person identifying as a female. 

Gender is entirely based on identification while sex is entirely based on biology

Biology & Gender are both social constructs. 

I think this is the best most accurate definition. Most people usually miss one thing or the other when defining it. 

[Oeaohoo]

4 minutes ago, Bobby_2021 said:

Biology & Gender are both social constructs.

Why is biology a social construct?

Biology means bio-logos, the human discriminative faculty applied to the biological realm. The realm of bios itself, therefore, must be outside of and separate from (relatively speaking) the human discriminative faculty.

Notice also that the idea of a “social construct” implies a profane conception of society and the humans within it: what if God ordained society and the human discriminative faculty? “In the beginning was the Logos”!

[Bobby_2021]

4 hours ago, Oeaohoo said:

Why is biology a social construct?

Look at it deeply.

Basically a social construct means that something people pull out of their ass after observing reality.

4 hours ago, Oeaohoo said:

the human discriminative faculty applied to the biological realm

Exactly. When multiple humans come together to use their "discriminative faculty" we call it a social circle. Basically a bunch of people get together to label, discuss and make theories about stuff they see in reality.

"Male" & "Female" are labels that people made up. The process of digestion is a theory a bunch of people made up. Yes, it's closely connected to how reality works. But it's not reality. It's a map. Made by scientists.

Gravity is also a social construct.

This dosen't mean that you can fly to the moon. You, the moon all are constructs made up. Even the relationship between those concepts.

Ponder on this. 

[Oeaohoo]

@Bobby_2021 At the most fundamental level, reality is composed of an infinite variety of forms (Logos) and an infinitely formless substance which receives these forms.

Humans have the capacity to align their intellect with this Divine Intellect (Logos) - the metaphysical storehouse of the forms and ideas from which everything is manifested - and human sciences are (at least supposed to be) a reflection of this. That is the real meaning of Adam naming the animals in Genesis, for example.

Of course biology is not reality itself, that doesn’t mean it is just “pulled out of their ass”. The modern science of biology, like all other sciences of our day, seeks to map out reality ever more tightly without ever pursuing it directly, which was the approach of the sacred sciences of antiquity. I can agree that modern biology is mostly socially constructed because, in the world where “God is dead”, science is rooted in a denial of the metaphysical dimension. I can even more or less agree that biology can only exist through the mediation of a society, though a single person could engage in biology so it doesn’t necessarily require a social circle.

I think this emphasis on social constructivism is something to do with the dominance of Hindu and Buddhist ideas in New-Age circles (particularly the latter, as Buddhism with its emphasis on no-self and the void lends itself very well to a nominalist philosophy), Stage Green anti-logocentrism and postmodern deconstruction. It is possibly even related to the feminisation of modern society as the formless substance is feminine while the form-giving essence is masculine. It is also related to the preference for Love over Truth in spiritual circles and the general preference in modern society for sentimentality and passion over logic and reason.

[Danioover9000]

In a 1st world democracy, it is mostly in their rights to pursue a transition in some states, and identify as a trans person in some places, but others it is tricky, especially if we throw in age of consent, and the major differences of the upbringing narrative of heterosexuality, traditional gender roles and it's function in society, compared to other forms of sexual narratives and other gender roles that's behind their mental representation systems.

   However, to me that's all superficial appearance, because there's a deeper truth that's related to their sexuality in their life experience, and their state of consciousness. Transexuality, as it means to me, is parts and the whole of the definition: we have trans, sex, and uality in this word. Trans is a prefix word to other words like transcendence, transcendental, transformation, transposition, transparency, transpersonal, transvers, translation and all the common meanings of these words denotes a going beyond, or going meta, away and above the following implied meanings of the root and suffixes of those words. Then we have sex, as in the act of procreation and reproduction in biological male and female bodies, exchange of biological fluids and genetic material for the formation of offspring who will inherit the mother and father's genes, which is deeply attached and tied to our survival as an ego, from the person level to group level. We finally have this strange word, uality, which is phonetically and literally open to interpretation, could be duality, or reality, or unity. So, to me, transsexuality is a state of being that is more freer from the attachments of sexuality normally common and enforced by the EGO, individual to collective, from mainstream culture.

   As a way of life, it's challenging, given the prolific heterosexual narrative of a culture seen in mainstream information ecology like in tv shows, movies, social media, news, social gatherings and events, life experiences in a city or village. Not to mention that if we factor in stages of development, cognitive and moral development, personality traits, ego development, other states of consciousness and being, and other life experiences, we end up with a trans perskn that doesn't fit into a simple box, but is a ckmplex entity onto itself. How can society standards and government adjust to trans person and integrate them into society, while managing varying degrees of backlash from different groups with different perspectives?