@freemo IMHO "trans-women are/aren't women" is the perfect clickbait for differentiating political parts, without speaking of serious thinks. It is an arm of mass-distraction. I think that the gender vs sex aspect is intentionally left out for making this slogan more "provocative".

A man identifying as a woman (i.e. the gender) can try to adapt his/her sexual identity. He/she will never be a normal woman (with normal I mean having the average sexual characteristic of a woman), because there are still biological differences (bones density, structure of the brain, muscle, etc...), and some of these are determined in early fetus development and/or maybe from XY chromosomes. So it is a "good-enough" approach.

But from a gender point of view, who bothers... there is a lot of variance from man and man or woman and woman, for including also the behavior of trans-women, who again have a big variance.

On the contrary there is very few public discussion about how damage are doing microplastics on the fetus. This will potentially affect 100% of humanity.