One of my insecurities as a bigender person, who counts herself as a woman, is that, because I'm not *only* a woman, I don't belong in "woman-only" spaces.

Last year, when I passed as a trans woman, I participated in a woman-only Zen retreat. It feels weird to try this again.

What makes me bigender is not that I'm any less of a woman than any cis or trans woman, but that I'm another gender in addition to this.

So what's the criterion for belonging in a "woman-only" space? Do you have to be a whole woman? Or does the whole of you have to be woman?

These are two different criteria.

I meet the first one. I am a whole woman (plus another gender).

I don't meet the second one. The whole of me is not a woman; part of me is another gender.