Blacks, this women have different experiences than whites, this women, right?

Black trans women have different experience than white trans women.

And so I think that we just need to complicate when we talk about, when we say woman, we

need to be more exacting with our terms and about who we're speaking about.

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I want you all to think about the third word that was ever said about you.

Or if you were delivering about the person you were delivering.

And you can all know that if you want to say it out loud, it was the first two were it's

ah.

Well, it shows you that I also deal with issues where there's not certainty of whether

it's a girl or a boy.

So the mixed answer is very appropriate.

Of course now the answer often comes not at birth, but at the ultrasound unless the prospective

parents choose to be surprised like we all were.

But I want you to think about what it is that leads to that statement on the third word

because the third word is a description of your sex.

And by that I mean made by a description of your genitals.

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