If I ever go postal, this is why.
Someday, I'm going to snap and the nice men in white coats are going to ask: "What happened? What was the final straw?" and it's going to be MEN MISREADING SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR'S THE SECOND SEX TO ARGUE THAT ANYONE CAN "BECOME" A WOMAN.
Read The Second Sex, I beg of you. Girls become women, a process of socialization that female human beings undergo. She also explores the many ways men project their own ideas on women and then mistake those projections for reality, which may also be relevant here, no?
Today might be the day, actually.
Philip Pullman, you literally wrote the book on resisting theocracies and you can't recognize one staring you in the face and instructing you on how women do not, in fact, exist independently of men's projections?
"They did invent her. But she also exists without their invention."