Yes, this is true, and it's a complex issue in its own right. But it doesn't change the fact of whether a child is male or female. That's like saying if I'm involved in some kind of accident that burns my skin, a fire, say, that I'm no longer black.
Again, if we were having a conversation about intersex people right now, this would all be relevant. But we aren't. This isn't about the extraordinarily rare cases of children who's sex is ambiguous at birth. This is about the idea that you can change sex simply by saying you're a different sex. And that any mechanism that calls that into question is transphobic or hateful.
Yes, trans women existing doesn't threaten you in any way. It may not even impact you in any way.
But if it doesn't impact you, that may be because you're not a professional athlete. That may be because you aren't an inmate in a prison. That may be because you haven't been so traumatised by male violence that you're triggered by the sight of a penis in what was previously a female-only space. Or it might simply be because your boundaries when it comes to privacy are different to other women's.
My point is, whether or not any of these issues affect you personally, they do affect women. The question of whether abortion is legal may not impact you in any way. But that doesn't mean it doesn't matter.
You ask why I'm not writing about male violence. Well, first of all, laws that fail to distinguish between males and females will, and already do, absolutely lead to male violence. But also, there are lots of people already writing about male violence committed by cis men against women, and they are able to do so without facing abuse and death threats. I mean, just take a look at some of the use and racism this fairly benign article has generated. There's more of it in private messages. Many women want to speak up about this, as you can see in many other comments, but are intimidated into silence.
But no, I don't think trans women are "the big threat". I've explained this countless times, including, I'm pretty sure, to you. But let me say it again.
The threat is the erasure of what the word woman means and describes. This may not impact you personally, but it's oddly selfish to ignore the women who it does affect. It's the adoption of a definition of the word woman that doesn't allow you to say with any certainty whether I am a woman.
And it's the idea that children can consent to major, life-altering surgery on the basis of a feeling that they're being inundated with by social media andincreasngly, their schools. Once they're adults they should be allowed to do whatever feels best for them. But when the impact is this severe, there should be enormous safeguards in place to make sure only children who really, really need to go down that path are medicalised. We make this distinction in literally every other facet of life but this one.
If these two issues were addressed, I'd never write another word about this issue. I have no problem with trans people as a group. I fully support their right to life in safety and happiness and free from discrimination on the basis of being trans. But discrimination on the basis of being male, discrimination which I face too by the way, is a valuable safeguard for women.
