gender critical’ feminists are propelling biological arguments that essentialise sex and its relation to gender identity, contending that sex is purely biological depending on what reproductive organs you have. Their arguments amount to a fundamentalist approach to biology
The thing trans ideology misses - one of the contradictions at its heart that undermines the whole thing, is even if it were true that somehow for thousands of years humans have misunderstood what a woman is and actually a whole bunch of male-bodied people should have been classified as women all along, it doesn't follow that women by the new definition have any claim on stuff that was created for women by the old definition.
Because what they miss, what they get utterly arse-backwards, is that women's stuff wasn't set up for the word Women, but for the people that word described.
So even if that definition of a women is fundamentally wrong for some pure conception of a woman, it still described a group of people who have something material and real in common, and even if it were true that thing wasn't, as we thought, womanhood but something else, the commonality exists and continues to exist whatever we label it as or even if we don't label it at all.
And if you move the word Woman to cover a different group, what you have is a new group people that is called Woman for different reasons than the old group. Different people. Even if they really are Women because we better understand what a woman is, it does not justify their claim to anything set up with reference to the old group that used to be called Women because the error that excluded trans women from being recognised as women also meant that no Women's spaces, laws, provisions and support were set up to include the needs and risks of trans women, because at the time those things were created trans women were not part of the group called women.
And that means for trans ideology to be consistent in its claim that the definition of woman needs to change to include trans women, it cannot then demand that trans women should just be lumped into everything that already exists for Women because all those things were created using a definition of Women that trans ideology itself rejects.
They can't have it both ways.
If one accepts the assertion that trans women are just another variation of women but one that has been missed out of the old definition of Woman, one is unavoidably also accepting that the old definition of Woman was wrong, and therefore the only thing that makes logical sense is to throw all the old Women's stuff out and rebuild from the ground up based on the needs and risks of this new group of people called Women and not the old group, taking account of this new level of variation within the group.
And at the same time, regardless of how you label them, the group that used to be called Women still exist and are the only ones with a legitimate claim to existing Women's spaces, laws, provisions and support, because that was all set up under the old definition of Woman.