One of the biggest parts of success is simply showing up <| sep |> I look forward to seeing your book in the local author section of Waterstones . <| sep |> I am from Newark . Please send it my way . <| sep |> The only things I want to contend are 3 I can ' t force a privately owned and run women ' s shelter to include people they don ' t feel are women , but I would hope the point of a domestic violence shelter is to give human beings who have been battered and abused at the hands of men a safe place to get their head on straight and get away from those men , not just a place for biological females to do so . Transgender women fulfill the spirit of a domestic violence shelter , in that the only perceivable difference in their experience of abuse vs . that of a cisgender woman should be chromosomes and so I WILL say that I think it ' s petty , misandrist , and outright spiteful to exclude someone who experienced their abuse in the exact same way , is most likely incapable of penetration and isn ' t any physically stronger than any other woman and ergo is not a danger to the other women , and is perceived as female . Trans women are just as vulnerable arguably more so in certain circumstances than cisgender women , so while I can ' t force a domestic violence shelter to include trans women , I will say that they are failing at their job if they refuse to do so . And 5 If you feel the need to segregate transgender women presuming estrogen dominancy from men in the prison ' s unit then you ' ve pretty much already admitted they should be housed with the women . Women are segregated from men in prisons for a reason , and transgender women , once again , fulfill the spirit of that purpose . So what I ' m getting at is , it really shouldn ' t matter if transgender women are biological females are not . For all intents and purposes they function as if they are one , share many of the same dangers and social pitfalls of a biological female , and are victimized at rates roughly equal to biological females . So in that regard , I actually don ' t care if you consider transgender women biological females as long as you acknowledge that they should be allowed to operate as if they are . I ' m coming to suspect that our views actually don ' t diverge by that much , with only a few key differences , which I ' m willing to continue discussing with you .