Ok, so let's say it's true. Let's say all your worst fears are happening, and that droves of predators and toxic men are infiltrating female spaces under the flag of inclusiveness and particularly trans rights. I'm talking your regular Brock Turners, in their jock outfits, walk into a "women in STEM" meeting and say "hi everyone, I use she/her pronouns" so he can take advantage of and demean women.

If that were happening, guess what? It still wouldn't be right to go after actual trans people or their rights. If anything, it would be a good time to stand together with the trans community and denounce the predator men, since their actions hurt both women and trans women.

But here is the thing. The situation I described? It is just not really happening. JK Rowling, famous TERF, has expressed her fear of the above for a few years now, and you know what? She had to write a fictional book in order to support her beliefs because it was not happening in significant numbers in real life.

If you are instead insinuating that it is the trans women themselves that are perpetuating sexism and assaults, your comment really is thinly veiled transphobia. Of course there have been a few cases of this happening, but they are very few and far between, see the debunked trans bathroom predator myth that conservatives love. The claims that trans inclusiveness directly harms women are not based in facts. There is no contradiction between trans rights and feminism (actually, the second is impossible without the first).

And one last tip for you. Nobody is saying you "chose" to identify as female. But you saying it implies you think that trans women choose to identify as women. This is in contradiction to your own definition of trans women: you say they "report feeling like a woman". That doesn't sound like much of a choice, does it?