I would enjoy hearing myself called by the title "doctor." I've read a lot about medicine. I imagine I would make a very fine doctor. But I do not call myself "doctor." I do not have the training, experiences, and history of a doctor. I have not paid the life price to be a doctor. It is in no way a personal insult to me to deny me the right to use "doctor" on my resume. It is simply the educational reality of my life. Putting on a white coat and stethoscope would not make me a doctor. Claiming "doctor" on my resume would constitute fraud.
There are now people with penises who wish to use the title "Woman." They would enjoy hearing themselves called "Woman." They've observed and read about what it means to be a woman. They imagine they would make a very fine woman. But they do not have the biology, the experiences, the Blood Mysteries of Woman; they have not paid the life price to be a woman. It is no personal insult to them to deny them that title. It is simply the biological reality of their lives. Applying this culture's "artifacts" of Woman long hair and painted fingernails, makeup, dresses, high heels, breast implants, and "feminizing" face surgery does not make them Woman. For a person with a penis, claiming "Woman" constitutes fraud.
-Ava Park, “Female Erasure: A Sampler” in Female Erasure
