Did anyone hear this? There was a woman from Engender, who said that research done in America showed that there had been no attacks on women by transwomen in "women's spaces" and that transwomen were not a danger. But I've definitely seen some reports on here of attacks, both in America and elsewhere. How do they get away with saying that there is no possible danger to women from transwomen? More importantly, how do they get away with no-one (and this was quite a long discussion) even mentioning the possibility that men who are not transwomen could take advantage of self-id to access women's spaces and attack or otherwise harm women? No mention of sport either.
Mindbogglingly, the Engender woman, in the context of suggestions that some women who had been attacked by men in the past might find it difficult to lose all women only spaces and might stay at home, of her own initiative said that women were always free to access safe spaces at rape crisis centres, which by the way were open to transwomen too!
The transwoman on the programme talked about JK Rowling at some length - a lot of stress on her having struggled with her gender identity and violence by men, and that she was reacting against that by spreading the trauma to vast numbers of other people. Humiliating her, basically, rather than actually addressing what she has said, and urging her to get off Twitter.
The only person mentioning the GC viewpoint was a journalist, who was mentioning it on the basis of what she's heard that such women believe, rather than it being what she herself thinks.
It felt like a real con job, with just a few hysterical women who are easily "triggered" having any issues with self-id.