Please consider those of us who have been given ill treatment by men for decades, many of us, though it almost always goes unreported, raped. A man, especially when it appears that it could be a disguised man, in a women’s space, especially one where you are removing/ pulling up/down articles of clothing, is inherently frightening. Consider that women are groomed and sexually harassed, raped more often than goes reported, and you may understand why we are uncomfortable with a non-passing trans-woman in a women’s space. *You* may be sure that you are no threat, whatsoever, but *we* can’t read your mind…just because someone says they are a woman, doesn’t make it so. Women have a lifetime of experience with men who lie, put on an act, seeming to be harmless…then, when they get you alone….*Way* more often than you can imagine, men who seem to be absolutely respectful and nice, even if you’ve been aquatinted with them for years, when they get the opportunity to be alone with you, turn into a big, aggressive, sex-fiend, all hands and greedy mouth…it’s disgusting and very frightening…

Though I know that it feels like it, no one is trying to be mean to you, personally, but we need to feel safe in spaces that are segregated by sex.

Unless a person can enter a space and look, sound, and behave like they belong there, please, just don’t.

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PS; it’s more than “uncomfortable”. It’s frightening…there’s a certain mindset that women share. It involves how we think of men, and how we go through our lives feeling like we’re tiptoing through, around, a mine field, always suspicious, for our own safety…if this undertone of awareness isn’t an integral part of your psyche, you don’t know what it’s like to be a woman.