EXACTLY!!!!! Well...no, not exactly, there are numerous cases of women being assaulted and raped in the examples I gave. But "the author" isn't trying to make the case that transgender women are a threat. In fact, I was at great pains to point out that neither I nor Rowling think they are.

But, as she says, if you make the standard for womanhood nothing more than "I say I'm a woman," then you remove any ability whatsoever to distinguish between trans women and men who are pretending to be. This is the problem.

And do you think maybe, just maybe, Rowling’s "terrible attitude" might have something to do with the years long campaign of abuse she's endured?

Do you think, if you were a woman and were sent misogynistic slurs and death threats on a daily basis for over a year, you might develop a bit of an attitude too?

Do you think, if people refused to actually pay attention to your words, and instead disingenuously twisted everything you said to make it seem like you were saying something you weren't, you might lose faith in the possibility of a genuine, good-faith discussion about these issues that materially affect your life?

And you, a man, trying to tell women that they "can easily ignore a penis if it’s not erect", is exactly the kind of gross, entitled, misogynistic crap that makes this conversation so difficult. What the hell makes you think you have the right to tell women what they should or shouldn’t have to ignore? Why do you think we have female-only spaces in the first place?? And then you have the gall to claim that you're "very empathetic" to sexual abuse survivors?! Give me a break.