It’s not “at odds with” any law to say that trans women are men who identify as women or as trans women. It’s the literal truth and there are (so far) no laws that forbid at. There’s massive social pressure, and maybe Ash Sarkar thinks the two are the same, but they’re not.

Trans women are men who identify as women; that’s what the word “trans” means. (They also identify as trans women, while shouting that “trans women are women,” so people get so bored with the tautology that they go do something else.)

It’s unpleasant to notice that Ash Sarkar ignores the 118 murdered women to focus on how to refer to non-murdered men who identify as women.

I think Sarkar is the one who must do better. Whether she can or not is a different question.