I think for me it is not about the immediate safety aspect (i.e. the rate of assaults in women's restrooms before and after legal changes in policy), but about the dignity of women being able to set boundaries around private bodily events, and the more global (long term) safety aspect of women having a right to set these boundaries. People shrugged when I explained to them that women in a shelter had to shower with a man who was leering at them, or at the idea that women in prisons might be impregnated by a transwoman. The argument is that this is all about compassion and kindness (i.e. we need to be compassionate to transwomen), but the lack of compassion for biologically female people gives the lie to this argument. A new societal construct is being built where women are considered selfish bigots if we exert the right to set personal boundaries. This has nothing to do with compassion and everything to do with power.

Where I am really concerned is about girls, about their right to be safe in their bodies, and, as importantly, the rights of their parents to protect their bodily safety and privacy.