I was pointing out that men, as a whole, are a risk to women. This does not mean every man, or every male member of a subset of men, is a sex offender. It does mean that men should be treated as a risk, like we do for every male, regardless of their identity. A male doesn’t become magically not a risk because he says he identifies as a woman. Gender neutral spaces and self-id allow men to be in a position to put women at risk.
I was mentioning things like sexual offences, because that is relevant for why women do not feel safe from men, regardless of how they identify. Opening up their spaces to men puts them at risk, as the data suggests. If there was no risk of women being harmed, and sexual offences are a huge part of this, we’d have much less need for female spaces (changing rooms, toilets, crisis centres etc). That men, no matter their gender identity, cause a risk is why this issue needs to be taken seriously, not flippantly dismissed, as if women’s rights don’t matter compared to male feelings.
