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Tl;dr: intersectional alternative spelling of "woman"/"women" meant to include transwomen and non-white women Pronunciation: unknown Etymology: "Woman" refers to any adult human female. 2nd Wave Feminists determined "woman" to be misogynistic because it included the word "man" and invented the alternate spelling "womyn." TERFs and other old school feminists took ownership of "womyn" to explicitly exclude transwomen as mid-2010s activists developed their Intersectional value system. The activists invented "womxn" to explicitly include transwomen and non-white women. It is possible that non-white women needed to be specifically included because Intersectional ideology believes any feminism that doesn't explicitly focus on non-white issues is "white feminism" Unintended implications: that transwomen and non-white women aren't included in the word "women" Popularity: "womxn" passed "womyn" in Google Trends in 2018
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