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He's referring to Imane Khelif, a cis woman from Algeria who has become the subject of a vicious international smear campaign by the right.

It got even uglier on Thursday, when Trump's running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, labeled a cis woman a "man" because he disapproves of her inborn biology.

“No cis woman will be in this category, only trans women and CIS men. That means it’s not ‘open.’”

The triangular will-they-or-won’t-they story that follows excavates the lives of Reese and Ames — who was once himself a trans woman, Amy — and, to a lesser extent, Katrina, whose experience as an Asian American cis woman leads her to reflect on the various ways that “women are made to feel that they don’t deserve to be mothers.”

“There are cis women who are very tall and very muscular and have more testosterone than another cis woman, and should that then also disqualify them?”