@artkavanagh I’m about ten years younger than you, so by the time I was in college, while it took some conscious effort on my part, referring to women as women did not seem odd at all. But your post made me think two things: it is important to validate and not belittle the investment of women who fought that battle, because it was a real victory and it’s important to recognize that locating gender identity in sexual physiology/biology, not as personal, lived experience, but as some sort of universal truth—which is what Rowling’s post at the least implied— is heteronormative and therefore invalidating of trans identity almost by definition.