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Title: What Does It Mean To Be A Woman?
Post by: Butterfly on October 18, 2009, 04:29:52 AM
What Does It Mean To Be A Woman?
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
16 October 2009


http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-does-it-mean-to-be-woman.html (http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-does-it-mean-to-be-woman.html)


Eternal Lizdom asked this question at her blog and invited women from various perspectives to answer it.

Some of my trans sisters have chimed in with their thoughts, and now it's my turn to do so.

What does it mean to be a woman? I interpret that question the same way that philosopher Simone de Beauvoir does. One is not born a woman, you become one.