Notcopingwellhere
the statement I was responding to did not say that the person would be afraid of a specific man dressed as a woman who was someone that they thought might be violent. Just a man dressed as a woman. The implication was that all men dressed as women are to be feared.
This is the statement you responded to: The only reason I would call an obvious man in a dress and lipstick "she" is because I was terrified of him.
The 'implication' is that if the man in a dress appeared harmless, they wouldn't use 'she', but if he looked like someone who might turn violent, they would.
As for why I feel a transvestite might be less likely to be violent than a man dressed in male clothes, just a gut feeling that violence is quite a macho thing, whereas wearing women’s clothes is not macho.
Many men who 'transition', often following many years of cross-dressing, have very violent histories. For example, Kellie Maloney attempted to strangle his wife, and Jane Fae says about men who kill their female partners: "Most murder is boring, pedestrian, even accidental stuff. Somewhere between a third and a half result from too much alcohol. A high proportion are domestic violence “gone wrong”. A blow struck one time too many: an egg-shell skull." As John Ozimek, Fae was an advocate of extreme porn (the sort which is currently illegal).
Not suggesting any scientific basis for my gut feeling.
A little research will show your gut feeling to be totally wrong.