I’m happy to accept trans womrm as womrn as I’m not paranoid they’re going to rape women and I see no threat to me or other women. Indeed how would you even know a trans woman is trans unless you look up their skirt!!!
Yes, we all started from a similar point. Pretty much all the gender critical "TERFs" started as lefties who believed in "live and let live".
The thing many people don't understand is that the term transgender doesn't mean transsexual.
Transsexuals are people who have dysphoria, who feel they are trapped in the wrong body. Fewer than 1 in 14,000 men have this. I can't remember off the top of my head what the figure for women is but it's less than half this IIRC.
Transgender, on the other hand, is an umbrella term that encompasses transsexuals, transvestites, fetishists, cross dressers, and generally people who feel they're not comfortable with society's definitions of gender norms and would like to be the opposite sex, and men who hate women but who get turned on by being accepted as one. In fact, anyone who want to identify as the opposite sex for any reason.
GIRES estimate about 1 in 100 people are trans. This is a totally different kettle of fish.
Trans is a political movement, it's an ideology. Save your pity as this movement is not really about transsexuals even. Transsexuals who say you need a diagnosis of gender dysphoria to be trans are called truscum by the activists, that's not what they're about.
The ideology behind transactivism is says anyone who says they're trans / the opposite sex is, no dysphoria required. The movement is homophobic and misogynistic as they don't believe that biological sex is a thing - that a penis is a female sex organ if its owner says they're female. Something like 80% of transwomen keep their penis.
This ideology says that lesbians who want to only date biological women are bigots.
Lesbians who don't want dick are currently being hounded out of the gay scene - out of Pride, out of their bars, groups, clubs, by male bodies people who demand they accept them as potential partners.
Just this week:
A young lesbian was attacked by trans rights activists, who then gloated about it online.
Magdalen Berns, well known lesbian youtuber, got viscously attacked in the street in what may have been a homophobic attack. None of the main gay press covered it (because Magdalen speaks out for lesbians and agains trans activists).
Also this week, it's come to light that women in a homeless shelter were told to go back to the streets if they didn't like it, when they were forced to shower with a transwoman who made lewd and sexually inappropriate comments, and leered at them while they were naked.
And the vile Morgane Oger, a transwoman with political office in Canada, repeatedly berated Jana Cornel, an FGM survivor, for daring to say that FGM was performed on her because of her biological sex, no her gender.
And trans rights activists got a crowdfunder suspended for a guide for schools on trans children, that advocates watch and wait (given many trans teens have co-morbid conditions like depression, anorexia and autism) is fairly sensible and what the NHS advises, but the TRAs disagree.
That was just this week. This is a war on women, and you really need to open your eyes to what's going on as it's not long that women have had the rights we've got use to, and we're at serious risk of losing them.
There's kickback happening, but the TRAs have made significant progress progress, largely because hardly anyone saw it coming, the politicians want to look progressive and people like you still think it's all about helping transsexuals with dysphoria. But it's really not.