If you identify as a woman, you are one.

Despite knowing this to be true, perhaps you occasionally deny that you are a woman — accidentally or because something about it strikes you as true. Perhaps the issue is even deeper, and you have come up with a list of reasons you can't be a woman: everything from "I don't pass" to "I don't act like a woman." Maybe you're reading this and don't believe that phrase is true at all, that some criterion excludes trans women from being women.