
Originally Posted by
Suppressed Poet
Just so we are on the same page defining female as per Oxford dictionary:
fe·male
/ˈfēˌmāl/
adjective
of or denoting the sex that can bear offspring or produce eggs, distinguished biologically by the production of gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes.
"a herd of female deer"
noun
a female animal or plant.
"females may lay several hundred eggs in two to four weeks"
So by that definition a biological man can not be a woman under any circumstances. Agreed?
Here's the tricky part of the definition you quoted.. "of or denoting the sex that can bear offspring."
Your definition didn't say that an animal or person must be able to bear offspring to be a female. That would exclude little girls, most grandmothers and women who have medical conditions preventing pregnancy.
Can a biological man be "of" or "denote" the female sex? Watch this cover of a Johnny Cash and June Carter song. It's really very good. Using know-it-when-you-see-it skills, can you count the number of women on the stage? Is everybody on the stage who is not a woman a man?
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning——So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.