Woman vs Female

[Sally24]

I've never said that I was anything other than a trans woman,

Prior to actually living as a woman, I was definitely trans, but I somewhat regret claiming to BE a woman at that point. Life is a harsh teacher though, and my identity as a woman grows more developed every day.

If you want to nit pick on everyone's use of language then be prepared for it to be used on you too. You try to speak from the perspective of a woman, but reject that anyone else who hasn't followed your path could do the same. That's my problem with your whole line of reasoning. And your tone is not one of reason but of dismissal. You want TG people here to avoid stereotypes of women but you drop others here right into the stereotype image of a man who doesn't truly listen to women. Are there men here that do that? Sure. But you want to lump the majority here into that one little box. I think the beauty of this forum is to show how many different ways there are to be trans. The problem comes when one person or group is sure that they know more than everyone else on the subject. You know yourself. Everything else you know is by inference. You can't know how others feel or relate because they are not you.