Thank you for replying, but you have not answered my simple question.
Given that people with female bodies (biologically female, conceived female, a fact of their existence which does not change after conception regardless of any medical intervention or legal fiction) were historically and are still verbally, physically and sexually abused because of their bodies, and socially, politically and legally marginalised and disempowered relative to those with male bodies, do you accept that trans women and their allies should have stepped back from their demands to open all female-specific opportunities, rights and protections to trans-dentifying male people and left these protections and indeed language itself in place for the female people who still need them?
Do you accept that the insistence of these trans women and their allies on stripping rights and protections from female people is a serious problem that undermines women's confidence in the polticians that support it?
I think this argument itself is also vulnerable to hijack; one only need consider the bizarre contortions of alt-right figureheads who are claiming that women and minorities are somehow colonising male-dominated hobbies that were previously gatekept in order to see how easily it can be subverted.
Yes that argument can be made, but it is very easily countered by pointing out the purpose for which female-only single-sex provisions exist vs male (protection vs exclusion) and the differences in social and physical power between men and women. In fact I welcome anyone making the argument because in countering it I increase the power of my own. A genuinely valid argument does not have to hide away - something trans activists wuold do well to reflect on. Your apparent position that that "women should not speak up about the loss of their rights to trans identifying males in case it makes things worse" is cowardly and in my opinion not made in good faith.
And I will finish by addressing your attempt at a thought terminating cliche "Rights for marginalised people aren't a zero-sum scenario."
Indeed they should not be.
But men (original sex based meaning of the word, of whom trans women are some) appropriating formerly female-only language, spaces and rights IS a zero sum game, because what you gain for trans identifying men, you take from female people who lose what little power and protections they have gained to support them in the challenges of being female in a sexist society.
Does that not tell you that the current flavour of trans rights activism is doing it wrong?
If trans identifying male people truly cannot co-exist in the same spaces or even language as their fellow men, surely the answer is to build something new instead of taking from women, to stop imposing this zero sum game on us and build something new for yourselves that fits you just right?
Believe me, the second you stop imposing yourselves onto us and face the world honestly, women will stand right beside you. We both suffer from not being the default patriarchal male archetype. We have that in common. But we suffer in our own ways not the same way, and trans women denying that and imposing their own ideas about womanhood onto us is colonisation.