So, I doubt that very much/ other sources are giving me different info. But let’s accept it. Let’s say it’s 100% correct. The current situation is still not only not protecting women in women’s bathrooms - it’s actually endangering us far more.

Let me lay it out and you tell me what you think.

So our premise is - trans women are still somehow ‘men on the inside’, therefore dangerous to cis women. But we agree they are a very small part of the population. So if you asked an average woman would she be more comfortable in the same bathroom with a trans woman or with a cis man, can we agree it would probably be the cis man that causes more stress? As, in line with our previous exchange, most of us who have had harrowing experiences have had them with regular men, not trans women.

And here you will say ‘well of course!! All men should DEFINITELY stay out of women’s spaces, that’s the whole point of my article, didn’t you read it?

And I did. Except the issue we come to now is that trans men also exist. And I don’t know if you’re following that side of things - I feel like trans men are forever in the shadows somehow, no one ever brings them up in debates - but with how hormone therapy and such has developed, trans men look 100% like men. I’m talking beard, pecs, hurly burly man looks.

And those 100% male presenting people are now SUPPOSED to be in my bathroom. Because they were born female, right? And so far so good, I have nothing against either group of trans people in my bathroom.

But I wonder if you are seeing my issue already? If previously we said ‘well, any man can PRETEND to be a woman in order to gain access to women’s spaces’ - what we have done now is literally assured that they don’t even have to pretend. Any random dude without even combing his hair can now rock up to the women’s room and say ‘oh yeah I know I look like this, but I was born with a vagina.’

And, like….. am I gonna check?? Are you gonna check? Are we installing genital screening in bathrooms and are any of us comfortable undergoing that?? So effectively, this change literally throws the doors of women’s bathrooms open to any single man casual enough to say ‘oh yeah I was born female’.

Do you genuinely think that’s better and safer for us? Before at least they had to take hormones and pick out a dress.