@JustAnotherNight #215433
Actually, that generally doesn’t faze them at all. They just move the goalposts to something like “A woman is someone who is a biological female with female sex organs and who produces large gametes between puberty and menopause, or someone who would be or develop that way if it weren’t for medical conditions or human intervention that prevented that.”
Basically, if you would develop into a ‘normal female’ if only it weren’t for some medical fluke or accident, then you’re female. But given that a trans woman, since her conception, never could have become like a cis woman in regards to her body, she is not a woman.
And no, genetic errors in cis women don’t count, since that falls under “medical fluke/condition”.
Likewise, organ removal doesn’t count because that’s human intervention, and menopause doesn’t count since it’s a natural aging process.
As for intersex people, TERFs have their own (more or less arbitrary) views on which intersex conditions correspond with which sex. But generally speaking, they seem to tend to see the presence of a Y chromosome as being equal to “this is a male”.
But for the most part, TERFs just disregard intersex people as irrelevant anyway, since TERFs consider them to be, at most, “exceptions which confirm the rule”.
So, even if intersex people are considered an exception (which most TERFs wouldn’t concede), they are so few in number that they don’t matter for the definition of what counts as a woman (or man).