You know, it's completely infuriating. And if they were "just" gender essentialists, I think I could look at them and say they were backward bigots. And despise them, obviously. What I need, however, is for someone to explain to me why a psychologist is on the committee of people deciding whether she is a woman.

So, you need to have the right hormones, apparently. And you need to have the goods downstairs. But then they want to just, you know, "check" with you to see what you consider yourself. In case you secretly consider yourself a dude. Or maybe so they can find out whether you wear dresses enough(?). So they can weigh it all with the gender expert and decide whether you're actually entitled to consider yourself female and let you know. Good god.