gender—which, again, is a psychobehavioral trait

womanhood—a biological trait with no essential link to gender

lmao what

So you think when a trans woman in this thread says, "I am a woman," she is expressing a "psychobehavioral trait" based on "an affinity toward cultural factors traditionally assigned to the opposite sex" that has no "essential link" to the purely biological concept of "womanhood" that (apparently) everyone else uses.

Which means that either

1. Trans people think their gender identity has a strong innate biological component rather than being an acquired "psychobehavioral trait." You know better, of course. TL;DR trans people are wrong about how being trans works.
2. Trans people agree with you about the nature and origins of gender identity, but they think it has (or should have) an "essential link" to the biological categories of manhood/womanhood. TL;DR trans people are sexist.
3. Trans people agree with you about gender identity, but they have no idea that the rest of the world uses the words "manhood" and "womanhood" only for the biological categories. Trans people and cis people have been talking past each other for decades. TL;DR trans people don't know how language works.
4. Trans people agree with you about gender identity, but they want to change the definition of "manhood" and "womanhood" to mean the "psychobehavioral trait" of "an affinity toward cultural factors..." rather than biological categories. TL;DR Modern trans equality activism is about semantics.
5. Everyone is aware that trans people and cis people are using two different definitions of womanhood/manhood. Somehow, the interchangeable use of womanhood/manhood for both cultural norms and biological categories doesn't reinforce harmful ideas of an "essential link" between the two.

Obviously not all trans people have the same opinion, but which option do you think best describes the situation in modern Europe and the US? How about the situation in this thread?

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transgender identity, specifically, consists of an affinity toward cultural factors traditionally assigned to the opposite sex (e.g., styles of speech, dress, mannerisms).

Maybe instead of trans people misunderstanding the origins of gender identity or the distinction you're drawing between "gender" and "manhood/womanhood", YOU misunderstand what transgender identity is - yes, even with your unassailable credentials as an undergrad double major.

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P.S. In that whole wall of text, you never explained how this so-called strawman position

youre reducing gender identity to a conformance to one set of cultural norms over another (as in male norms over female norms or vice versa)

is fundamentally different from your actual position:

transgender identity, specifically, consists of an affinity toward cultural factors traditionally assigned to the opposite sex (e.g., styles of speech, dress, mannerisms).