Both: what is the source/origin of the claim "trans-womxyn are women"? The DSM-5/icd-11 don't make the claim, I can't find it anywhere within sociology or psychology, not even within queer theory. Is it just a hashtag?

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I feel like there was some kind of emergence of the phrase from other ones before it - like maybe people were saying "women's rights are human rights" and "trans rights are human rights" and then wanted to make the point that they weren't separate or something like that...

I can't remember exactly what I'm thinking of, but I do have a memory that when it began to be popular some years back, it was replacing another popular activist way of advocating for rights - like maybe along the lines of "trans women and women are united"? At which point some people began to say, no no, wait, we can't say that, it makes us too obviously different, and started to just claim TWAW, which in the beginning was a fringe opinion but became more mainstream until it became the presumed truth.

I don't think there's any underlying academic research. It is all political, and any academic work on it is also political in nature in that it is written to back up a presumed thesis seen as beneficial for society.