I've not done face book but I have managed to express things 1-1.
I was a t a meeting where we were looking at some information and it said the organisation might loot at different data, broken down by ... and gender.
I said it would be sex and I was met with, "Well some people when they are born..." I'm able to take a case from my previous working life that a patient may be addressed as Miss but when I'm performing lung function tests that person still has male lungs and putting something else into the computer would give false results which could have a serious impact on that person's health.
The 'Trans women are women' phrase is so dangerous, I hate it. It harms many people:
Trans people need to access health care, a doctor or medical professional taking a medical history needs to be bale to ask about medication / hormones / surgery. A while ago Stonewall criticised a Dr for asking a teenage trans woman about the hormones they were taking.
Trans women have a life story, part of that was life as a male, denying that was ever part of someone's life stops them telling their story, they may choose not to tell, but they should be able to tell it if they want.
Anyone who is not sure who they are, I'm thinking mainly adolescents, if they are not sure if they are straight, gay, trans, a pink sparkly unicorn they should be able to access information facts, both about their current physiology and that of people who have transitioned or are partially transitioned or who chose not to go down the route of hormones and/or surgery. It needs to be discussed as fact that you cannot change your body to a female one, the surgery is plastic surgery, it will give you the appearance of being a woman but you will never have a vagina, if you have the plastic surgery that creates something that looks like a vagina you are going to need to clean it daily, you will also have recurring and painful sores due to the 'vagina' being made of skin.
The option of counselling or not transitioning is not being discussed, it's an individual thing but transition is not for everyone, counselling to accept your body as it is can help but cannot be discussed if TWAW.
Women, if trans women are women then what does woman mean? I have a motorbike licence, I wear mostly black, rarely a skirt and never makeup. I'm still a woman. I still don't have the muscle power of a man, I will be at a physical disadvantage to a trans woman in a race or a fight.
We have fought for the right to vote, be paid the same but to have protection under the law in certain situations, we lose that with TWAW.
Society in general, the statistics on crime, particularly violent crime are being skewed by reporting crimes by men as being by women.
If you assume TWAW then you are ignoring transvestites and others with a fetish who may or may not want to continue or to stop.
With Covid it appears some people are more susceptible based on ethnicity or blood group. If it was trans women who were being most effective then could scientists research he reasons for that?
Medical professionals, need to be able to ask questions in order to give appropriate treatment, screening for sex based disease needs to continue after transition, trans women need to have prostate exams, trans men with a cervix need to have smear tests.
Which brings us back to how 'Trans women are women' harms trans women.