@mastertomsmum transwomen commit offences at the same rate as any other male person. The Ministry of Justice figures show that one in fifty male prisoners identify as women. That's statistically consistent with male offending rates...and grotesquely out of alignment with female.
95% of those in prison are male. Most males in prison are there for violent offending, and most women in prison there for financial offending. Men commit over 98% of sexual offences, with just under 18% of all male prisoners in for sexual offending. (The last time this was checked, 50% of transwomen in prison were in for sexual offending, but that was probably due to not counting the gender identity of minor offending and short sentences, so overestimating risk. Nonetheless, transwomen pose the same risk as anyone else male. No greater, I personally believe, but absolutely not less.)
Much of the safeguarding for women and girls in society is based upon excluding males from spaces where women and girls are vulnerable. It's a key measure, because women pose an extremely low risk to anyone in statistical terms. Saying any male who wants can self ID into women's spaces drives a coach and horses through the very provision first created to ensure women could participate in life at all.
Why should women abandon those rights, simply to please a group of biologically male people, who as a group (NOT as individuals) commit offences in line with their biology? And that's before you even start to consider that a system that says any male who wants to can access all women's spaces, is going to enable predators who have no interest in gender identity other than in exploiting it to access women and children. The risks are plain, and predictable, and the whole point of safeguarding is that you reduce the avoidable risks. Like, you know - males in female spaces.
It's fine that some women are happy to share communal changing, sleeping and refuge spaces with unknown males, as long as those males say that they identify as women. But other women aren't, and you don't get to give consent for anyone but yourself. Women have the right, you see, to decide who shares their spaces when they are vulnerable. And they have the right to exclude males from that space. The suggestion that women are hateful bigots for wanting to decide who gets to see them naked is one that should give anyone with any claim to being a decent person pause. Consent. Pretty key concept, no?
Some women have already been the victims of male violence and are terrified of the above suggestion. Others just aren't comfortable with male bodies in their spaces. And that's their right. Telling women that they must submit to male demands, and that those demands are based solely on a subjective belief that they do not share, is absolutely in dinosaur territory.
Gender roles are bollocks and it's great if people aren't comfortable with them and want to explore who they are. If males are happier with a traditionally female gender role, that's great and of course they should be supported in living the life that makes them happiest. Same with women who enjoy and feel comfortable with roles we stereotype as male. That's all great, and we're all on board any attempt to harm, attack or denigrate people who live that way as being hate crime. It's pure misogyny to attack those who don't gender conform.
But saying that a gender performance makes you the opposite sex is as misogynist as it gets. It is saying that gender roles are set by biology, and that is exactly what women have been fighting for the past two hundred years. There is absolutely no medical evidence of any strength to indicate that someone can be 'born in the wrong body'. At present, it's a faith belief, same as thinking someone has a soul. Gender dysphoria is real, absolutely, and very painful, and that person deserves support and help and care. But it's not at all clear that it has a physical cause, as is claimed (not that that should matter, in terms of the care, of course). And treating one person's dysphoria does not mean that nobody else has rights accordingly.
The fact a bunch of male people, however they identify, are calling women who want the right to discuss how the redefining of what a woman is affects us hateful bigots who should be expelled from Labour... well, that tells you everything. Transfolk say, quite reasonably, that any discussion of trans rights should centre them. And we say that any discussion of women's rights should centre us.
Women are defined by biological sex. Not gender. I don't believe that sex is why women are oppressed across the world. I know it is. Women aren't aborted and murdered and raped and married to old men as children and genitally mutilated and enslaved and trafficked and employed less in less good jobs and listened to less and elected into power less and running corporations less and on the TV and screen and radio less and doing more of the unpaid labour and paid less because of how we identify.
We didn't identify into this. Our sex classed us into it from the moment we were born. And if we can't name that, and discuss it, we can't combat it.
Women are being told that they have to pander to male demands, to their own detriment, or they are hateful and stupid. Funny, but that sounds like same shit, different day, from here. Women have been abused for defending their rights ever since the women's movement existed. And we're still doing it. We'll keep on doing it. And we can't be prevented from doing it.
HTH.