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I know, when did "woman" become so problematic?
Woman is not problematic in my experience, and there's a cute bit about that in Clueless:
Street slang is an increasingly valid form of expression. Most of the feminine pronouns do have mocking but not necessarily misogynistic undertone —Murray
Part of the problem is that our society is trying more than ever to include trans folk (and yes the pushback is extreme, to the point of being genocidal) and this means recognizing that not all women fit into neat categories that we might expect of a stereotypical heathy specimen. It's less about some women being AMAB hence some women don't have periods. Plenty of women didnt have periods (or had atypical periods) long before we included trans women, but then we were able to pretend otherwise when making generalizations.
Most of the time, when we talk about women, there still is no need to exclude trans women and generalities that don't apply while including trans women probably fail when we don't include trans women.