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Every Transgender Woman Is a Woman.

By: Iustum Date created: April 19, 2025

The domain of discourse is reality.

1 Definitions

  1. All gender identity is a component of gender that describes a person's psychological sense of their gender.[i]
  2. Every person whose gender identity does not culturally conform to their associated sex assigned at birth is transgender.

Explanation. Def. 2 is used in the cultural ideas of political relevance, while not entirely correct or comprehensive.[ii] Otherwise, people would not call themselves women and thus have no reason to argue about within politics.

2 Axioms

  1. If every person whose gender identity does not culturally conform to their associated sex assigned at birth is transgender, then every transgender woman is a person whose gender identity culturally conform to the female sex.
  2. Virtually every person with a gender identity of a woman is a woman.[iii]

3 Propositions 1-2

Proposition 1. EVERY TRANSGENDER WOMAN IS A PERSON WHOSE GENDER IDENTITY CULTURALLY CONFORM TO THE FEMALE SEX.

Proof. If every person whose gender identity does not culturally conform to their associated sex assigned at birth is transgender, then every transgender woman is a person whose gender identity culturally conform to the female sex [Axiom 1]. Every person whose gender identity does not culturally conform to their associated sex assigned at birth is transgender [Def. 2].

Proposition 2. EVERY TRANSGENDER WOMAN IS A WOMAN.

Proof. Virtually every person whose gender identity culturally conform to the female sex is a woman [Axiom 2]. Every transgender woman is a person whose gender identity culturally conform to the female sex [1].

Remark. Someone might question why the proof is reasoned inductively rather than deductively: Any construction of a deductive argument could not be satisfying. The main reason is that the argument around this topic that gender is synonymous with sex is, correctly, incoherent. Furthermore, another level of why transgender women are women is changing the definition of woman based on utility, which is correct. However, trying to extrapolate a definition from the APA[iv] does not seem enough to justify this claim-at least, from my full effort.


Notes

  1. ^ American Psychological Association. (2024). Gender. Retrieved February 20, 2025, from https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/bias-free-language/gender
    "Gender identity is a component of gender that describes a person's psychological sense of their gender."
  2. ^ American Psychological Association. (2024). Gender. Retrieved February 20, 2025, from https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/bias-free-language/gender
    "Transgender is used as an adjective to refer to persons whose gender identity, expression, and/or role does not conform to what is culturally associated with their sex assigned at birth."
  3. ^ The Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. (2023, July 10). How many adults and youth identify as transgender in the United States? Retrieved April 19, 2025, from https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/trans-adults-united-states
    "Among U.S. adults, 0.5% (about 1.3 million adults) identify as transgender," meaning 99.5% of people are cisgender-what the opposition would call women or men.
  4. ^ American Psychological Association. (2024). Gender. Retrieved February 20, 2025, from https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/bias-free-language/gender
    Women are people with the attitudes, feelings, and behaviors that a given culture associates with a person's biological female sex. Extrapolated from: "Gender refers to the attitudes, feelings, and behaviors that a given culture associates with a person's biological sex."