I feel ambivalent about all this cloak and dagger stuff re venues etc and wonder whether it may not be more beneficial for our cause to have public meetings, announced in the usual way with tight but 'passive' security and an ironclad rule that nobody gets physically involved with anybody, let security deal with any trouble-makers from any ideological camp.
Shouting and fisticuffs is just embarrassing and juvenile and makes everybody involved look bad.
If there was an event in which TAs went all shouty and disruptive and that was caught on film and broadcast while women stood by and behaved sensibly, it may skew opinion in our direction. I hope.
Although, actually I think the biggest problem is that the vast majority of people, men and women, don't give too much of a shit about all this and are utterly unaware of what's going on.
What transpeople I know in RL are quite horrified by what the more extreme end of TA is up to in their name. They do NOT feel represented by those nutters and really just want to live their lives. Which are difficult enough without being lumped in with extremists.