@likeacrow - one of the biggest worries about self-ID is that nobody actually has to transition at all to gain access to what should be single sex spaces.
If a man who has not transitioned AND HAS NO INTENTION OF EVER TRANSITIONING wants to gain access to a woman's changing room, he will be able to do so, just on his say so that at that particular moment, he is self-IDing as a woman. Apparently most trans people do not, in fact, transition in any way. They keep the biologically body they were born with.
Worse, a man in a woman's changing room probably won't even be asked how he identifies, because women are being told they cannot challenge anybody in these spaces for fear of causing offence.
We will have to assume that the man in the ladies changing room is self-IDing as a woman just by virtue of him being there.
So that man may not actually be trans at all.
We keep being told it won't happen but a lot of the things we're being told won't happen already are.
For example, we are being told that women in women's prisons will not be in danger from men who identify as women being sent to women's prison with them - but this is just one report where four women have been sexually assaulted by a trans prisoner with a fully working penis while in New Hall Prison, Wakefield.
Or there's this story, about a man who raped two girls but then identified as a woman and was sent to a women's prison even though he had not had any reassignment surgery. One girl was under 16 years old, the other girl was disabled. This person then had to be segregated within the women's prison because of 'unwanted advances'.
The same article references another violent prisoner who was moved twice because they sexually pursued women prisoners while awaiting gender reassignment surgery. This second prisoners sister claims she doesn't believe her brother really does identify as a woman, she believes he is manipulating the system.
These are just three examples of people with penises being sent to women's prisons and women suffering sexual assaults and harassments as a result.
Then a trans prisoner who won a competition to be "Miss Fitness" in a Scottish prison contest. This article states that as well as winning the women's prison fitness competition, Alex Stewart, who repeatedly stabbed a man to death within hours of meeting him, has not had reassignment surgery but showers with female prisoners as well as competes against them.
The article is quoted as saying "The rest of them shouldn't have even bothered entering" the competition and that "Everybody knew it wasn't very fair, but nobody was allowed to say it."
Even worse, the article also says that "This means she is in the showers at the same time as other inmates, which some have found quite awkward." Apparently their awkwardness is meaningless though because "She has the right to determine her own gender."
I know I've focused on prisons and prisoners, but you can find plenty of similar examples for areas that affect other women. Sports for example.
And just because this hasn't affected you yet, it's not a reason to think that this is okay. You don't have to blindly believe the concerns or have experienced being in prison with these prisoners to understand why this is a massive problem that can and will affect all women in all aspects of their lives.
I'm fairly sure I could find a real life example for every concern on that list I posted previously if you wanted me to find them for you.
Women are being intimidated when they attend meetings to discuss issues that affect them. Bomb threats have been made. Venues have been bullied. At least one woman has been punched in the face for going to a meeting. Others have been doxxed and had their employers contacted.
Crimes that men have commented are now being recorded as women's crimes. Crimes against women are not being recorded properly.
Everything on that list is happening and more. Sooner or later, this will affect you.