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Ed's car crash of a webchat here.
Oh Laura, Laura, Laura... The internalised misogyny is strong in this one.
As for you Ed, well, Stonewall (so not a source carefully commissioning a polling firm to give them a right-wing answer) conducted a survey. 80% of the British population don't believe transwomen are women. Most (because despite the clusterfuck that is Brexit, we remain at heart a fairly laid-back, tolerant nation) have a live and let live approach of "we'll politely pretend."
But that polite pretence will get dropped PDQ when more and more Karen Whites end up in women's prisons (they aren't "rare", Ed dearest - FPFW did a series of FOI requests coupled with research into official prison statistics, which revealed that over 40% of the prisoners in the male estate currently identifying as trans are banged up for sex offences - i.e. in the male prison population, trans-identifying prisoners are actually more likely to be sex offenders than a randomly selected member of the male prison population. Incidentally, this doesn't mean that geniunely trans people are more likely to be sex offenders - the overwhelming probability is that the blokes in prison are just a load of chancers who aren't trans at all but are trying to get an easier ride in a women's prison/access to a literally captive pool of potential victims. Just as the professional body of psychologists dealing with prisons told Maria Miller would happen during her select committee hearings. Which she then ignored and pushed for self ID. Just like you're doing).
That live and let live attitude is going to evaporate PDQ when more and more parents have to watch their talented sporting daughters edged off teams and off training programmes by male-bodied teens (as is already happening in the US).
The shit's really going to hit the fan when a whole load of troubled young women (many of them with ASD, mental health issues, or past histories of childhood sexual abuse) who've tried to escape the shitty aspects of womanhood by transitioning suddenly realise they were conned and they've been left with mutilated bodies.
Anyway, congratulations. I think you've pissed off a lot of potential voters today. More than the 30 or so supporters on twitter enthusiastically egging you on for sticking it to the "transphobic" mummies who should know their place.