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Sure, you can just define women as "people born with pussies" and men as "people born with dicks".
However, I would argue that this is not exactly how these words are used in broader society. Your average six-year-old has a clear conception of which clusters in thingspace the words "men" and "woman" refer to, but are likely not aware of the exact differences in genitalia.
Sometimes, subsequent theories form neat cascades. When you do taxonomy, you might start with the phenomenology of extant animals, then include fossil records, and finally use genetic similarity as a great proxy for generations since last common ancestor. In each step, you might have to revise things a bit here and there, but mostly the shape of the cluster stays intact.
Likewise, if you go from Arrhenius acids to Brønsted–Lowry acids, you just generalized your definition in a useful way.
Contrast this to going from from Brønsted–Lowry acids to Lewis acids. While there is some overlap, these two definitions very much do not try to point at the same cluster in thingspace.
Now, you can argue that gender is such a neat cascade. As a kid, you start out with a vague definition centered around pronouns, then you learn about genitalia and use that as a definition, and finally you learn about X and Y chromosomes.
But I would argue that it does not work that way. Roughly, there are three different spheres where gender/sex is relevant, general social sphere (pronouns, bathrooms), sexual (whatever floats the boats of your partners, perhaps social passing and genitalia) and reproduction/medical (genitalia, chromosomes, disorders). Now, for 90% of the population,all three spheres agree on their sex/gender, but there are certainly cases where this is not the case.
Luckily, gender for the purpose of sexuality does not need to concern society at large. If someone identifies as a silly gender like "attack helicopter" in bed and finds someone who likes to fuck attack helicopters, that is great for them and their partner and ok for society. And if a prospective partner does not like the shape of their M230 in their pants, that is for them to negotiate and not for society to regulate any more than it regulates styles of pubic hair.
This leaves the social sphere and the biological sphere. There are good reasons not to try to unify both spheres. For example, in most societies, it is considered very impolite to pull down the pants of strangers to find out by what pronouns you should address them. From a pure biological point, XY's with CAIS are infertile men, not infertile women, but only a complete asshole would use that reasoning to tell a XY kid with CAIS to shower with the boys.
We solve this by separating sex and gender, and having one word "(biologically) female/male" for the one property, and another, "(cis/trans-) man/woman" for the other.
To add on to this, OP's premise that people don't know what a woman is, is incorrect for the reason that separating biological sex from sociological gender originated from progressive ideology. To do so, one must have a clear understanding of both biological sex and the sociological traits associated with it referred to as gender.
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