Since I was a little girl I’ve suffered harm for being female. My thoughts were “opinionated”. I was both a "slag" and "frigid". Treated like meat. I've been dehumanized as a “cow” (female cattle). And when women achieved their own legal rights, males calling themselves females sought to claim those rights for themselves. If I object, I am called “cis” making me a subset of my own sex, or slurred as a Trans Exclusionary Exclusionary Radical Feminist. I’m now in my 50s and I’m still fighting for safety, privacy and dignity, and to be treated as equal, but distinct and different, to men.