Well ... the subject of gender is very very topical. The Isla Bryson case exposed serious threats to women in prisons - a threat people like the women on these threads warned the Scottish government about. Those threats were ignored. Women were put at risk. The public horror at that has quite possibly ended Sturgeons career, and that could quite possibly impact on Scottish Independence. The issue hasn't gone away. Women are still sounding the alarm over risks.
So what you're doing, is what Sturgeon did. Ignoring, silencing and revealing yourself as a person who thinks gender identity is more important than women's safety.
Like Sturgeon, you're so concerned with being all 'progressive'**, that you feel comfortable coming onto a forum and telling women that their concerns about their own safety, their worries about other women, concerns about longer term consequences for their daughters.
You are even more suiting than Sturgeon, because you even feel it's OK to come over and tell FEMINISTS in a FEMINIST FORUM that they may not discuss FEMINIST ISSUES.
Who the fuck do you think you are? Seriously?
Unlike Sturgeon, you won't lose your job when the public decide your views are crap. And yes, you can go tell your pals how you tried to fight the good fight.
But two things you need to take on board, whether you like it or not.
First, ordinary women will judge you every day all day for your casual disregard for their safety. We're currently in a time like the Spanish Inquisition, where the general public nods along with gender woo and suppresses deep misgivings. I, for example, do NOT talk like this in public. I nod along too. But I hear you, I note who you are, and I file you under 'misogynist'.
Second thing I would like to say to you, my contempt for people like you is absolute. My anger is white hot and pure. It sickens me to my core to see the casual disregard for womens safety, the denouncing of women as 'witches' if they dare query the evolving situation. Because that's what you're doing. And it's contemptible.
Third: you need to consider, like Sturgeon didn't, that there is no amount of brainwashing or compelled speech or workplace guidelines on pronouns that will EVER blind the public to tangible threats to women and girls safety. Fathers will never accept their little girls being exposed to penises and sexual harrassment in changing rooms, women will never capitulate and say 'Ok, we will compromise on rapists in our prisons' etc.
And when it explodes it will be ugly: all that pent up worry, silenced misgivings over safety - squashed down and suppressed because lovely people like you police how people think and feel - will explode all over the place. And transgender people who are decent, kind, safe, will be caught up in it. I blame people like you for that, not women who are trying to resolve a real painful issue.
I think you'd do well, if you can, to pack away your 'right on' 'progressive**' public signalling of 'I'm one of the nice kind good people' ... and think really hard and carefully about what you are ACTUALLY doing. Think about the long term consequences. And learn WHY this is an issue.
Or, just fuck off.
** There's nothing progressive about telling women to stop talking, that they should tolerate risks to their safety. That's as old as the hills.