I have had four pregnancies and birthed three children. My first was a miscarriage. I breastfed all my babies. I fostered 5 children, 3 of whom are a very special part of our family. They now have families of their own. My son is married and soon to be a father. I am a wife, mother, daughter, sister, auntie. I am female. My experience as a woman is because I am female. No bloke in a frock, who is a eunuch or dependent on drugs for the rest of his life to pretend to be a woman can hold a torch to my womanhood or any woman. You don't have to be a mother to be a woman, but you do need to be a woman to be a mother.