And I think some people here may have been traumatised by horrible childhood experiences perpetrated by men and it's understandably prompting a panicky response. I myself am a survivor of this and have had PTSD symptoms. Two years of therapy later and I can now see outside myself again. So I do get how the prospect of self ID can be triggering and result in lashing out.
I'm sorry to hear of your experience and PTSD and I'm very glad you are OK now.
As you say, a lot of girls and women are victims of male violence, sexualised and other. Indeed male violence against girls and women is recognized to be an urgent global human rights issue.
From Oxfam (their bolding) :
www.oxfam.org/en/violence-against-women-and-girls-enough-enough
"Did you know that at least one in three women (35 per cent) will experience some form of violence during their lifetime - more than one billion women worldwide?
Violence against women and girls is a hidden global crisis which knows no boundaries of geography or culture. But, marginalized women, such as poor women and girls, are most likely to experience it, most often at the hands of their husbands or partners.
Violence against women and girls takes many different forms, including domestic violence, sexual assault and harassment, child, early and forced marriage, sex trafficking, so called ‘honor’ crimes and female genital mutilation. It is rooted in the gender inequality that women face throughout their lives from childhood through to old age. "
OP, I found the part of your post I quoted above, really unpleasant. You may think it came across as understanding and sympathetic but it really really didn't.
Gender Critical women's response to the erosion of women's rights by genderists is not a panicky lash out. And I find your analysis to be dangerously minimizing of the reality of male violence. And victim blaming to boot. You might as well call us hysterical.
I was sexually assaulted with penetration when I was a child. It was done by a stranger and in a public place. The perpetrator was, of course (in accordance with all statistics and observation), a man.
I've also been flashed at, wanked at, followed, groped, harassed (sexually and otherwise), leered at, ogled, cat called, pestered for sex, etc. All perpetrated by men (no surprises there huh?).
And I am in no way unusual. My 14 year old daughter has already experienced most of these. It's starting to happen to my 12 year old.
Women want and deserve the rights to dignity, privacy, and, protection from men's unacceptable behaviours towards us. We do not ask for these things out of panic but out of plain old fashioned common sense. Men as a class victimize girls and women as a class. The UN, the WHO, Oxfam, etc say so, not only feminists. It's official. It is therefore common sense to protect girls and women from men.
This is not women's fault for not getting therapy or for being affected and traumatised by male violence (no shit Sherlock). It is men's fault for perpetrating the violence and society's fault for it's toxic male supremacism.
I was traumatised by being sexually assaulted and I have no shame in that fact. I think my reaction is one of common sense. And what my reaction was is this; I lost my innocence in a split second. The action of my perpetrator set off this alarm bell in my head men transgress girls and women's boundaries because they can and they want to and they will.
That is what went through my head as I was being sexually assaulted in a busy public place. And nothing I have seen over the decades that followed has done anything to change my mind. Quite the contrary!
As I say, what happened to me is not unusual. We are dealing with a worldwide class issue. This is not about individuals and how they process trauma FFS.