I've been asking for examples, well here they are

Sometime last year, I cleared out my spare room and rearranged all the furniture and items in there, in order to create more space. Since then, I’ve been getting rid of books, as I have far too many and would like to remove one of the bookshelves

Moving house is hard – especially when it comes to having to sort out your books. For me, there were three decades worth of them to go through.

Looking at my bookcase ahead of a recent relocation, I realised an entire shelf was dedicated to the Harry Potter series. All seven were original, first releases – all hardback, and in mint condition.

At the end of 2019, Rowling defended researcher Maya Forstater, who did not have her contract renewed when she tweeted that transgender women can’t change their biological sex;

Since then, Rowling has doubled down on her views. She has liked a tweet opposing a ban on conversion therapy; she has claimed there is a conflict between ‘the radical trans movement and women’s rights’; and she has handed back a human rights award after having her views questioned. And this week, it emerged that her new adult fiction book Troubled Blood features a killer who is a cross-dresser. All the while, denying she is transphobic.

‘If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased,’ she tweeted back in June 2020 – adding that ‘erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives.’

‘When you throw open the doors of bathrooms and changing rooms to any man who believes or feels he’s a woman – and, as I’ve said, gender confirmation certificates may now be granted without any need for surgery or hormones – then you open the door to any and all men who wish to come inside. That is the simple truth,’ she wrote.

Online, she stated that ‘a hulking great rapist doesn’t become a woman by putting on a wig’, while sharing salacious stories about the ‘cruel and degrading’ punishment of women ‘forced’ to share shower blocks with ‘male-bodied sex offenders’.

There’s no doubt that women’s history has been coloured by trauma – the present still is – but that history should include trans women’s trauma, too. They’re women, too.

The simple truth is that dangerous men will always find a way to abuse women – they don’t need to ‘pretend’ to be anything different, and uniformly excluding trans people from single-sex spaces certainly won’t stop predators.