I've come back to thin because it's interesting a DM you don't seem to be foaming at the mouth.
I'm also Irish and I think you've been more than a little disingenuous in your comments on this thread stillscreaming. The population in Ireland is much smaller than the U.K., the trans population therefore is much smaller (see the numbers applying for a GRC) and in general we don't have a significant number of transgender individuals with a high profile, many of whom, it would seem, aim to appear frequently in the media solely in order to make inflammatory statements with the aim of denying women the right to speak/discuss issues that directly affect them, as would seem to be the case in the U.K.
(For full disclosure, I spend half my time in London and half in Ireland).
Ireland doesn't have the trans women you describe but neither does the UK. What the UK does have is a very loud Twitter argument going on between numerous anonymous individuals. Great amounts of bile are spilled on a regular basis but we don't know between whom. There is one group who tweet inflammatory things at trans people and another group, who may or may not be trans, who tweet back equally inflammatory things. For every 'chest feeder', there is a 'real women have breast' and for every 'kill all TERFS' there is a 'trains should be crucified'. There is a lot of sound and fury but I'm not sure what it signifies or who it's coming from. It's as likely to be 4chan as anyone else.
No one is shy about importing American hate either, bloggers who shouldn't be allowed a crayon, never mind access to the Internet and right wing religious fundamentalists are both putting the 'mental' into the argument.
I've gone looking for the TRAs and I can't find a group bigger than MN fem chat and they seem to be, about as spread out in their ideologies as the MN folks. Some are frothing with anger and some, less so. Either way, neither group could possibly account for the amount of tweeting that takes place.
I'm more concerned about crime statistics, prison segregation, womens refuges, sports participation, scholarships, political participation and the ability of women to meet as a group to discuss issues concerning our female biology without accusations of transphobia. I also find the discourse around the supposed 'cotton ceiling' disturbing and homophobic but I accept I'm not directly affected by that.
Most of that stuff, I'd ask you to do your own research around. With the normal proviso about being careful about your sources. Many things are repeated on MN that aren't fact. Some things have a grain of truth in them but still aren't actually truthful. I'm sure you can see for yourself that you have a small group of women, who've had a lot of press coverage and a fair bit of media attention, who are claiming to be censored. They also claim to be interested in debate but show very little interest in chatting with women with different views. There are a lot of contradictions about.
The cotton ceiling thing is disturbing and homophobic, I and many of the lesbians I know are really pissed of that the only time we get mentioned by this subset of 'feminists' is to use us as a battering ram for trans people, it feels really homophobic to us.