The link to the De Beauvoir reference is broken, and I'm not sure whether I can edit the piece without losing the comments (does anybody know, off hand?). Here is one quick reference for it (thanks to my friend Martin for pointing it out): https://web.archive.org/web/20220603222840/https://r4dn.com/what-does-one-is-not-born-but-rather-becomes-a-woman-mean/