But the answer is pretty simple. Most folks drafting inclusionary policy start from the premise that trans women are women. So if you ask, "Why should she be allowed to compete with biologically female athletes, be housed with "real" (sorry, sorry, biological) women, be allowed to use the Ladies' restroom?" the simple response is, "because she's a woman, and that's what women do." Unless there's some specific, compelling reason to exclude these women from engaging in activities that all other women get to engage in, we don't exclude them.

OK, I understand the DEI people's viewpoint now. (DEI = diversity, equality, inclusion).

IMHO the DEI czars in companies and government bodies are calling a tail a leg, and like Humpty Dumpty they think the question is, which is to be the master (i.e. whose definitions should prevail). I have to agree to disagree completely.

I admit I don't know the difference among trans women, drag queens and intersex (and yes I read the 89 definitions of "third sex" that someone had linked to.) Let's just say they are not heteronormative / cis / (whatever word will piss off the least amount of those on the left and the right) men or women. A third separate category whose biology does not match their internal gender identity.

If they have a penis, they are not women. They may be more woman than man, but far away from the two peaks in the bimodal distribution of gender.