Leap and similar communities are not essentialist, they are safe spaces for those people who share the experience of existing as a woman in the tech industry.

Leap and similar communities are not essentialist, they are safe spaces for those people who share the experience of existing as a woman in the tech industry. It is a false equivalency to conflate Leap with terf essentialism. Additionally, why the quotes around men and women? Is this an attempt to be subtly transphobic?