What attributes and characteristics makes a woman a woman?

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A girl is a minor with a vajayjay & a women is an adult with a vajayjay

The mark of a woman is menstruation. If you have never had to worry about getting your period - either wondering why it has come too early or too late or not at all when it should have, you are not a woman.

And as far as "identifying" as a woman goes, if you cannot identify with the above, you cannot identify as a woman.

'Nuff said.

I feel this a trick question, no answer you give won't piss somebody off. I'll just say I'm not in charge of making this determination and it doesn't really matter what I think individually.

Someone seems to be on a mission...

Yeah... this.

Lacking a Y chromosome on the 23rd chromosome set, to be more precise. It is possible to have three or more X chromosomes in the 23rd set and still be female, but introduce even a single Y chromosome to the set and the person is male.

No amount of belief, hormone replacement therapy, or reassignment surgery will make any difference, one way or the other.

And if it's the presence or absence of a person's reproductive ability that determines whether they are a man or a woman, keep in mind those people who have lost their reproductive organs through accident or disease - a woman who has lost her uterus or ovaries is still a woman, and a man who has lost his penis or testicles is still a man.

A male can also have two X chromosomes, one of those X chromosomes having the SRY gene that causes him to develop a penis and testicles in utero. (Although he might need testosterone during puberty to develop male secondary sex characteristics like facial hair).

Women can have one X and one Y chromosome and female genitals -- in Swyer Syndrom and Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. (They, too, would need estrogen at puberty.)

People can also have mosaicism or chimerism in their sex chromosomes -- meaning some cells in their body have the XX karyotype, while others have the XY karyotype (they may have more than two karyotypes, too -- includeing XO, or XXY). Their bodies may develop to have mostly female sex characteristics, mostly male sex characteristics, or more ambiguous sex characteristics.

Even experts in fields like endocrinology (probably not all of them, but definitely some of them -- I don't know about numbers/ratios) conceptualize biological sex (whether or not you include the brain and gender identity as part of that) as a complex and fragmented thing rather than something black and white. You can't say that any one sexually dimorphic physical structure absolutely determines the sex of the whole person/whole body, because each sexually dimorphic part of a person's body can be feminized or masculinized separate from the other sexually dimorphic structures (including chromosomes, in a way -- because of things like: Translocation of genetic material like SRY that results in XX males; Alterations in the functioning of specific genes like the androgen receptor gene that results in AIS, or nonfunctional SRY gene that results in Swyer Syndrome; XX/XY mosaicism and chimerism; and who knows what else that I'm not aware of or that nobody is aware of yet that may be discovered in the future).

Data please?

From what I know of human evolution, it's not nearly that simple. For example, did you know that the skeletons of Neanderthal women have just as many hunting-related injuries as those of Neanderthal men?

In addition, although boys act less nurturing towards babies, both sexes are equally nurturing towards pets. Since we only act nurturing towards pets because they unconsciously remind us of babies, it's clear that boys could be just as nurturing to babies, if they didn't see nurturing babies as a 'girl thing'.

I think this just shows how little we know about genetics and how young the field really is.

Yet, for millennia, people have been able to distinguish between healthy men and women based on their physical parts and sexual function.

Gender roles and expectations seem to be based on society & culture.

This.

It's genetics. Whether you "feel" your gender is a personal matter.

But there are XX males
'XX_male_syndrome'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XX_male_syndrome

So by this logic, these men are women ?

I think it's a silly thing to worry about. Let NT people figure it out. They seem to be the ones that have to classify everyone into a group.

For a woman to be a woman, she must be cisgendered and proud of her gender and private parts.

Really! Please do that. It's statements like these that make me feel that the world hasn't changed for transgendered people over the past 30 years. I'm not pretending to be anything. It's 2015, not 1955. Hormone replacement and therapy changes everything. If I had a Beatle, I'd flick it at you.

That's a pretty mean thing to say. I will give you a minute to figure it out.

I'm from the future, and I'm sad to inform you that the battle for some semblance of rationality jumped ship, drowned, got eaten by a shark, and said shark was caught and consumed by the special snowflakes of society.