“If someone is telling me they’re female, when I can see that they’re male, I’m already thinking the worst. They’re already lying to me. I would leave.”
This is so true, and it is heartbreaking. Women being unable to access vital healthcare because of arsehole men gaslighting us that they are women. And the power structures accepting the arsehole men as women, on their own say-so, and sod what women are saying.
We are still saying No and we will still campaign for keeping men out of women's spaces - especially women's intimate care spaces - but keeping men out of all women-only spaces, really - because otherwise, men just take over.