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We need words for adult human female and adult human male, and we already have them. But definitions do follow use, so maybe you'll win. In that even I vote for returning to Old English wīfmann for adult human female and wēr for adult human male. "Mann" really was the word for human once! Why bother with womyn or wimmin when we can just call men wēr and give MRAs something to talk about for once?

I don't think it's the worst outcome. Though we would probably start all over again with transwīfmann are wīfmann and transwēr are wēr, it would be much harder to do twice.