Yes. It appears that in this thread (and in real life) there's this big "reefer madness"-style fear being spread around that straight cismen are going to start self-ID'ing as women in order to be able to infiltrate women-only spaces and (presumably) say or do things to harm the ciswomen within those spaces.
Firstly, I (and I presume you also), would like to see actual evidence that this either a) is a problem right now, or b) is forecast to be a problem in the future. I think I can attach a high degree of confidence that it's virtually non-existent right now*, and nor do I forsee it becoming much more than that in the future.
And I'll explain why: the very small proportion of straight cismen who harbour desires to harass (and worse) ciswomen are driven primarily by a desire to exercise power/domination - sexually and physically - over ciswomen. And a necessary component of this is the desire to present themselves as "red-blooded" alpha males.
So therefore, the very notion - even if it's no more than hypothetical - of gaining entry to these women-only spaces by virtue of pretending to be a transwoman.... is anathema to the (very small proportion) of straight cismen who might seek to do such things.
Anyhoo.... back to your regular programming
(Ohhhh and for the avoidance of any lingering doubt: in my previous two posts within this current thread, where I was writing in italics, those italicised passages categorically
did not represent my own views. Keen-eyed readers might have noticed that I was re-presenting the argument of the poster to whose post I was responding - and countering their position by showing just how ludicrous (and offensive) their claims would sound if they were applied to another social/sexual minority group (eg gay men). I thought I'd made it very clear (not least by the word-for-word repetition, and the use of italics) that I was employing a rhetorical device, as opposed to stating my own beliefs. But obviously that still was not clear enough for some....)
* I certainly don't
ever recall having read/heard anything about straight cismen using the "transwoman" ruse to enter women-only spaces (eg sports centre changing rooms**, women's refuges, etc) to commit criminal acts. If anyone here
does have such historical evidence, I'd be very interested in seeing it.
** And it's worth remembering that wrt many women-only spaces (notably sports/swimming changing rooms), any straight cisman could walk through the unlocked door at will at any time anyhow. The perceived threat to ciswomen in such spaces is neither lessened nor heightened by allowing transwomen to use them.
