"Lots of women disagree with you!" - How to respond to this?

[TERFCat]

Recently, the "many women disagree with TERFs" (or something to that effect) argument has been given as a response to me.

How would you respond to this point?

Hypothetically, if there was a poll and 99% of women agreed yo allow men in women's safe spaces, what would you say?

I'm gender critical through and through BTW! I just can't think of a good response to the above points!

I think the difficulty with this kind of conversation is when the other party seems to have already decided that certain points of view are verboten so will just be dismissed out of hand as wrong think, rather than genuine desire to engage and learn.

Only you know the kind of person you're talking to and whether they're likely to be at all receptive, whether it's worth the energy and headspace.

It's really hard when you feel as though someone is attacking you unfairly for your totally reasonable beliefs and you want to defend yourself (been there! )

But think carefully about the cost to you and the likely outcome. You aren't obliged to engage if the cost is too high/ benefit too low.

Consent is not transferable.

I actually love the sex is a spectrum argument, because then all I need to do is ask about gametes- are there sperggs? speggs? erms? What do they look like? How on earth does IVF work? Was I ever even pregnant? HOW???

Congrats for finding someone to engage on this

Thank you all! Some brilliant replies here! I especially like the propaganda one.