Not a Review, but need to rant

I have been thinking a lot about gender issues and gender stereotypes and gender equality since finishing Blue Flag (well, I didn't actually finish it since the final chapter is not available on the platform I used to read it). But thinking about these issues, I have begun to consider what TERFs say about feminism and what feminism looks like to them. How can it even be called feminism if they don't actually believe that women and men are equal? Because look at it this way, if you truly believe the two sexes to be equal, then you would have no problem with transgender rights. Feminism is about empowering women so that they hold a status that is equal to men. If you claim that those AFAB (assigned female at birth) are somehow not physically equal to those who are AMAB (assigned male at birth), such as by saying that so called women's sports allowing trans women to compete somehow have given those individuals a competitive edge (ignoring the reality that everyone is built differently and some AFAB people are stockier and stronger than some AMAB people), this claim is decidedly anti-feminist. As a matter of fact, separating sports and even prisons by gender is stupid and harmful to everyone. And the argument that, if you integrate prisons there will just be more rape is stupid and unfounded. There is already a lot of rape in prison and they are not integrated. The only thing that should actually be a concern is pregnancy, and even that is not necessarily a given. Most people, given the opportunity to use birth control to prevent unwanted pregnancy, would not elect to have a baby in prison. Perhaps there could be a separate prison for known sex-offenders, which might stave off rape of those who have not had a sexually violent thought. It would even stop sexual assault in regular prisons because assaulting someone would automatically get that individual transferred to the rapist prison where there was a danger that they, themselves, would be assaulted. As it stands now, AMAB trans women are more likely to experience sexual assault if they are put into prison with AMAB cis men. So many of their arguments fall apart under scrutiny, but none of their arguments assume equality of gender. Yes, historically, men have had power and that power has allowed them to assault women. But feminism is about changing that aspect of history, giving women equal power. Arguing about "women's sports" is not equality, it is the opposite of that. Rant over, thank you for tuning in.