Anti-trans feminist rhetoric about female spaces tends to rely on the false premise that it is always possible to detect a trans woman on sight and challenge her access to the space. This simply is not true in many instances, and could easily lead to a situation where masculine cis women and intersex women are challenged erroneously as ‘male’ based on their appearance. In reality, most trans men I know would not want to make cis or trans women uncomfortable in spaces set aside for people currently subject to the kinds of misogyny women experience, even if those same trans men did once
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