I don't want to take any sense of safety away from anyone. I'm sorry. I'm trying to navigate things as best I can, and I almost always refrain from entering female spaces out of guilt about such things. I worry that I'm going to make the women in the support group I was put in uncomfortable, but I don't really know how else to navigate my circumstances.

I'm asking for an empathetic discussion because I don't do well with conflict, but I want to understand where people are coming from, and I find empathy to be the best route to understanding. I don't expect empathy just because I'm requesting it, but at the very least it's what I'd like to work towards. I do empathize with why women want female-only spaces, hence my guilt at the thought that it might be wrong of me to intrude, and I'm trying to empathize more by opening myself up to a forum like this to consider the consequences of my actions from a different perspective. I'm sorry if my approach to this is flawed; I'm trying to better myself.