What Is a Woman?

This recent Olympics debacle made me realize that there is a weird dichotomy of understanding sex that is both inherently material-reductionist in thinking and worldview. The left sees it as whatever someone wants to be and the right cannot decide which material-reductionist aspect defines it. Is it genetics? Is it appendages? Of these options, genetics would make more sense than appendages since cutting off an appendage or adding one (by surgery or deformity) does not change if someone is a man or woman. Eunuchs are not women because they cut off an external appendage.

I have seen memes circulating saying now how the left wants an external appendage that someone is born with to define womanhood, and then even some right-wingers doubling down on a need to define it that way — showing how a retrosynthetic simulacrum is always defined by the left. An external appendage or form does not define a sex, or else the removal of it would define it. One day, they might even be able to create artificially grown sex organs for transplant, which still would not change the essence of a woman or man even if the external form is interrupted in its organic expression.

There is an underlying worldview issue with modern mechanical thinking that cannot grasp a gestalt living whole. The form of something in the physical world is an unfolding of essence, the spirit becoming flesh. The disruption of the full actualization and potential does not mean that essence changes but points to something harmful in the environment that harmed its expression. These naturally occur and are signs of sickness or toxic environments that need to be tuned into, not ignored or used to justify further purposeful disruption via chemical and mechanical intervention of the expression of essence into form.

A deformed man is not a woman, and now it seems people cannot even trust their eyes when looking at what is clearly a man. The reason why we look at Imane Khelif and see a man is that our eyes are not deceiving us when we see the expression of testosterone production, even from underformed testes. Swyer syndrome is an example of a distortion between essence and expression in the physical realm; it is not an excuse, nor is it a woman. They have some female external forms but their genetics is male, which the eye can see; they also produce male hormones and are incapable of reproducing naturally. The mirror image of this condition is called de la Chapelle syndrome. Neither of these is a woman or a man; just because their syndromes are now understood does not change the fact that they are what are traditionally called hermaphrodites.

This idea that a deformed or underdeveloped man is a woman is insulting to womanhood. There is no reason that Angela Carini should apologize to the hermaphrodite. The reason people see it as a tranny is because we are seeing tons of people with purposeful chemical interruption of natural sex hormones, so our eyes do deceive us in those cases because there is chemical intervention of naturally occurring spiritual essence. They do deserve our sympathy but not at the expense of a hatred for womanhood, which is defined by our receptive capacity for co-creation. This is not a case of “better genetics” outcompeting a woman; it is an abomination of form from essence. The way that Imane Khelif even looked at what he could never be conveyed a level of contempt and hatred for healthy womanhood that is despised by this disgusting age.

I am a woman because I can grow life inside of me and I did not fully know myself until I did. I can do this naturally and organically as an essence unfolding into form without mechanical intervention. This is a sacred mystery that I had the joy of experiencing and did not need a test to know that I was pregnant because I was in tune with my body. I felt life grow inside of me, and the moment I saw my child for the first time I did not meet them, as people say, because I had always known them. Conception is a living process that connects us to living absolutes, not mechanical processes, even if, in a screenshot, it can be described mechanically. It is the pinnacle of how being and becoming interplay and they cannot be cleaved from each other but flow into each other from attached essence.

That many now cannot naturally reproduce is not a personal failing but depicts how toxic our environments have become to disrupt the unfolding of essence into new forms. This is a warning sign that we need to change the human organization that is harming us, not double down into forgetting our place in the natural order or that we are also subject to our lack of healthy stewardship in dominion for all that is below us — as above so below but also as below so above. Everyone is doubling down on the concepts of identity because without the foundation of connection or yin aspects of reality, becoming or actualization will always be a simulacrum. Deeds are important and full actualization of potential cannot replace generation but neither can it be severed from it. We need to protect the foundations of life to be able to grow into full potential; there is not one without the other.