I am not a cis woman. I was born with, and still have, a vagina, uterus and ovaries. What does that make me?
We used to have a poster on here who very bravely spoke about her PTSD and how, on bad days, she would have panic attacks being in the same room as male bodied people. For her, a safe, woman-only place to heal from her experiences was quite literally a matter of life and death.
We also used to have a lovely transwoman poster who had, at some point, been raped, and who was at pains to stress that she (and I'm happy to accord her the courtesy of calling her she, because she was always a very reasonable poster) had had no problem accessing rape crisis support which included her, and couldn't see why it should be such a big deal to have some rape crisis support which was biological women only, for women with severe PTSD.
No-one is saying that all rape support has to be for women only - just that we need it to be legal to have some spaces that are women only. And to deny that there is a need for such spaces is woman-phobic.
And to repeat - don't fucking call me cis. I do not identify with the oppressive gender roles that society tries to force upon me. I am a woman, because I have a vagina, uterus and ovaries. I'm not identifying as anything.