I am transgender
I am appalled by this person who calls themselves Jessica Yaniv.
I am trans.
That means that I have a disconnect between my biological sex, that is, the sex that I actually am, and the sex that I wish I was. No amount of surgery, alteration, identification, or indeed law, or social construct, will change that fact. All that will ever do is try to afford me more of a connection between who I am and who I wish I was.
You (by you I mean anyone) can call me what you like. I can insist that you call be by a preferred pronoun, by a specific gender, but it will not change the actual fact.
And it's for that reason that I choose to be identified as transgender. Not male. Not female. I am most definitely not the latter. I don't relate to the former. So I fall in an area that doesn't align with either.
If I am not female, then I shouldn't have access to female only spaces. If I choose to reject my male identity, then I can choose to reject access to male spaces. That is the choice that I CAN control. But that does not give me any right to access female only spaces. I personally do not care what rights the law gives me in order to do so. I will make the choice not to impose myself on those spaces. Because those spaces do not exist for people like myself. They exist for women.
Yaniv is trying to control a space that Yaniv is not entitled to control. Yet Yaniv quite clearly feels ENTITLED to CONTROL it.
And that is why Yaniv appalls me.