If there are no gender distinctions in legal or medical language, what follows is equality by default. When women are considered people and people have rights, women have rights! I really hope that came across in the article.

There definitely still need to be safe spaces, such as places for people to go when in a domestic abuse situation or a rape crisis centre, but those services aren’t limited to specific gender identities. Trans people can (and unfortunately often are) also victims of abuse we think of as "violence against women," and are sometimes denied care because they’re trans. If we make spaces sex-segregated and exclude trans people, where is a trans man supposed to go if he’s raped and the crisis centres only accept women? What if he’s pregnant, and his gynaecologist only accepts women? What if a trans woman leaves an abusive husband and needs a shelter, but the shelter is anti-trans and won't allow her entry because she’s trans? These are real problems that happen shockingly and horrifyingly often. Gynaecologists should treat anyone with a vagina, cervix, uterus, etc., and that includes a lot of non-women!