J.K. Rowling said women are in danger of rape & murder by men, including men who want to be the opposite sex. Men who want to be the opposite sex responded by sending her rape & death threats, thereby proving her point & ending the debate once & for all, in an own goal.

J.K. Rowling wouldn’t be married to a man if she believed that all men are predators. She just recognises that female-only prisons, shelters & sports need to remain female-only in order to remain safe.

Very well put!

However, it's not just about remaining physically safe. It's also about fairness and about privacy, dignity, comfort, hygiene and mental health. Girls and women don't just want fair play and safety in sports, and right to be safe from male sexual violence and battery. We want a fair chance to be able to participate equally in the world beyond the home. To have a fair shot at full participation in society, we need some spaces outside our homes to be places where we're physically and emotionally safe from male predation and we also can escape the male gaze, male catcalling, male come-ons, and males just being male.

Girls and women don't want to have to get undressed with adult and adolescent males looking on. We want a few places in society where we can find refuge from being ogled and treated like pieces of meat.

Another issue is that we don't want to have to use toilets where the seats and floors are covered in male urine. Girls and women don't have the option of peeing standing up like guys do. We have to sit on the toilet seats that boys and men pee all over. Blech. Moreover, since we pee sitting down with our underpants and trousers around our ankles, the urine that boys and men leave all over the floors in toilets gets on our clothes as well as our shoes. If we have shopping bags, handbags or backpacks and there's no hook, the male urine gets all over them too. If we have small children in tow, the male urine all over the floor gets on them too. The whole situation we are now being expected to put up with in mixed-sex toilets outside the home is gross.

Yet another issue is that girls and women don't want to have to pee with males listening in. Some boys and men are sexually aroused by the sound of girls and women urinating.

Dealing with issues of female biology like menstruation, pregnancy, miscarriage and lactation are difficult enough when outside our homes. Forcing girls and women to have to deal with such intimate matters in the close physical presence, view and earshot of our male work colleagues, classmates, and of male strangers is inhumane and cruel. It robs us of bodily privacy, dignity and comfort. It puts us under enormous needless stress because it makes it impossible for us to let our guards down and relax.

• Male sex-offenders have been assaulting female prisoners ever since they’ve been allowed in women’s prisons.

• Male athletes have been breaking women’s records & skulls ever since they’ve been allowed to compete against female athletes.

I'd add:

• Male voyeurs have been leering at and perving on girls and women in women's loos, locker rooms, change rooms, spas, shelters, refuges, dormitories, hospital wards and support groups ever since adolescent and adult males have been allowed into these kinds of formerly female-only "safe spaces."

• Male exhibitionists have been exposing their dicks and balls to girls and women in women's loos, locker rooms, change rooms, spas, shelters, refuges, dormitories, hospital wards and support groups ever since adolescent and adult males have been allowed into these kinds of formerly female-only "safe spaces."

• Male public masturbators have been jerking off in the presence and earshot of, and often in full view of, girls and women in women's loos, locker rooms, change rooms, spas, shelters, refuges, dormitories, hospital wards and support groups ever since adolescent and adult males have been allowed into these kinds of formerly female-only "safe spaces."

• Male sex offenders have been sexually assaulting girls and women in women's loos, locker rooms, change rooms, spas, shelters, refuges, dormitories, hospital wards and support groups ever since adolescent and adult males have been allowed into these kinds of formerly female-only "safe spaces."

• Males spy cam pornographers have been using tiny digital cameras to secretly videotape girls and women in women's loos, locker rooms, change rooms, spas, shelters, refuges, dormitories, hospital wards and support groups ever since adolescent and adult males have been allowed into these kinds of formerly female-only "safe spaces."