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Call yourself a woman? Feminists take on transgender community in bitter debate

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Sarah is often asked to "prove" her womanhood. Curious strangers want to know if the 31-year-old transgender woman has had surgery. But what she has "down there" is irrelevant to her innate sense of being female. "What makes me a woman is not my physicality it's my gender identity. That's permanent, that's not a choice and it has been there for as long as I have been aware," she said. Advertisement "I was just as much a woman when I was 12 years old going to North Sydney Boys High School and doing a very good job of pretending to be one of the boys." But for some this is not enough. They argue Sarah has not earned the right to the title...

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