It's not about people conflating "trans" with predators It's about the cover that predatory men can find in a definition of "trans" that doesn't have any boundaries.

I can identify as a trans woman (and therefore a woman legally speaking) right now in the UK and US. No hormones, no surgery, no social transition. Again, the reason this conversation has become so toxic is because of obvious overreach like this.

The category, whether it's "trans" or transsexual or transgender, has to mean something concrete before you can have an intellignet conversation about trans inclusion in women's spaces (which is the issue here, the intersection between trans rights andwomen's rights).

My suggestion is simply that we define "trans" in a way that can't be identified into on a whim. It should be impossible, for example, for me to claim I'm trans on a whim and enjoy the same rights and access asall trans women have. This used to be the case. And we weren't having these conversation. The reaction isn't to transgender people, but to the erasure of any meaningful boundary to the category "trans."