I think about this sometimes. I’m not sure if it’s like the word “guys” or not but I’ve defaulted to just not calling trans women it even if I call cis women nigga because it’s unclear. It’s weird because if I said “niggas” it could be a group of all men or a mixed gender group but not a group of women. However, With all the black women friends I’ve had the word has been used to refer to each other and to men
The word could be used as a slur against women as well. All black people can be niggas. Not just men. So it could be gender neutral??
Also I’ve found that white people mostly see “niggas” as solely referring to black men but who cares what they think? Not me.
I do think it’s used more to refer to men but when im in a mixed group of black men/women the word is used to refer to pretty much everyone. And I’ve heard and seen women call each other the word. I think it might be an age thing too because older black women I know only use the word to refer to men. Only younger people use it to refer to everyone.
im in a gc with two black women and they refer to each other as nigga all the time. I think it’s context-dependent.
A woman saying “Niggas ain’t shit.” vs Me saying “Nigga go to bed.” If I was talking to any blk woman I know they wouldn’t think I was calling them a man.