The denial is built into the system.
Women have raised issues - they were ignored, dismissed, derided, hounded out. Women's groups that resisted were wrecked or driven under ground.
This is the same denial/lala land that says 'lesbians love straight sex, I've never met a lesbian who doesn't', ignoring that their personal group would never permit a lesbian to say otherwise, and that they have hounded and bullied out every lesbian who would have done.
Women have been excluded, harassed, assaulted, in the case of some of the worst attacks seriously injured. But none of that matters, because it doesn't fit in the lala land reality. So like other inconvenient facts - like sex, biology, etc- it's vanished.
And then there's surprise and failure to understand when finally women force it through courts (with YEARS of documented discussions and evidence of all the historic incidents and issues for women, in many situations) and all they have is to give a baffled shrug and say it's random, incomprehensible 'hate'.
Magical thinking rules, and there's no reasoning with it. But it endlessly proves, multiple times a day, exactly why women still need sex based rights and protections in law, that are rooted in objectivity and not activism.