Women's spaces don't exist to separate the sexes just because, they exist to protect the (weaker) women from the (stronger) men.
If you accept this, it's perfectly logical to kick trans-identified women from women's spaces. They made themselves stronger and (more importantly) more threatening. Women have every right to kick out the people who deliberately made themselves look like a threat. As to where they should go -- it's no longer our problem.
This is not a compassionate stance, and I don't necessarily support it for all spaces. But it is logical and keeps males out.
While I agree with you that, by and large, women's spaces exist for reasons of safety, your entire argument relies solely on sexist stereotypes about women being too weak to defend themselves and the (false) idea that every woman who identifies as trans is taking testosterone and has become a physical threat to other women as a result. Those are not solid bases for an argument, especially when the group you're trying to exclude based on a "safety" argument includes, for example, young "nonbinary" girls who don't take testosterone and whose trans identification is in name only, or straight "gay transmen" who are incredibly feminine in dress and appearance and have no intention of doing any kind of medical transition, and so on.
While statistics do show that ftms who are on testosterone exhibit somewhat higher rates of violent crime than women who are not on testosterone, for the most part these women don't pose a threat to other women, at least not physically, especially if they
aren't on testosterone. This is a bad argument.
(Now, if you want to argue that women who take testosterone should be banned from women's
sports and similar physical activities, for safety reasons, you would have my wholehearted support.)
Far be it from me to try to interfere in women's spaces, but... just a suggestion here: shouldn't the argument be "you're fucking it up for everybody else here, shape up or get the fuck out"?
How about... idk... a woman space with only women, no FtM (who've been on T), no MtF?
This is very, very difficult in the current political climate. Because all the expelled trans-identified women have to do is cry that they're being oppressed and discriminated against, and the group that kicked them out will either be shut down (one way or another) or forced into hiding for the physical safety of those involved.
Then you get accused of TERF'ing, which, all things considered, isn't the worst thing in the world logically speaking, but socially you may as well be accused of beating puppies.
Honestly, it's not being called a TERF in and of itself that's so bad - it's the rape and death threats, loss of your job/livelihood, constant harassment, dick pics, becoming a social pariah, etc. that being labeled a "TERF" brings with it that makes women (rightfully, to be quite honest) fear the label and do anything in their power to avoid being subject to it.
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