an adult female person; a gender identity, that may also be used in conjunction with other identities – such as a bisexual woman, a gay woman, an asexual woman, etc.

Women typically have female sex characteristics. A cisgender woman is a woman who was assigned female at birth, a Trans woman is a woman who was assigned male at birth.

An intersex woman is a woman who was born with sex characteristics that do not fit typical notions of female biology, and as such, some may have had “corrective surgery” performed on them whilst young to “normalise” their body into being typically female (that is, to look ‘typical’ of what an endosex female body would look like).

However, women may not have typical female sex characteristics, and still be cisgender and endosex (for example, a woman who cannot produce ova).

People who were known to be women, and identified as such, may no longer identify as women: such as Trans men, or nonbinary people.