Doesn't Stonewall take its name from the Stonewall riots which were transgender women and transvestites fighting the police after being arrested for being homosexual?
I think the big problem here is that a lot of people don't recognise that transwomen are women. And they believe that isn't transphobic.
Because if you acknowledge transwomen as women, then there is no erosion of rights. However, there does need to be a distinction between transsexual (transwoman or transgender woman), transvestite (cross-dresser), drag queen, non-binary. The last three are not women.
You mention Karen White... and yes, that's an evil piece of work. But let's not kid ourselves here that all women in prison are saints. Rosemary West did her fair share of crime against women.
Transwomen are raped, they are murdered, they are assaulted, they are trafficked, and they face domestic abuse too. So why the hostility towards them?
I only worked this out because of a comment on here... but from what I can see, 0.0005% of women are murdered by men in the UK. 0.0066% of transwomen are murdered by men in the UK (based on the registered number of transwomen who have been referred to a gender identity clinic in the UK).
BUT, this isn't a competition about who has the worst murder statistics etc. The point is that both women and transwomen have and still are being treated very poorly by men. That's the real fight. So surely the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
It saddens me to see all this venom directed at the wrong people.
And yes, a middle class transwoman might or might not be more vulnerable than a poor non-white lesbian... but I bet a poor non-white transwoman is just as vulnerable. The fact that we are having a competition on who has been most hurt by men should tell you that transwomen are not the problem here... it is MEN! But if we continue to attack transwomen instead of embracing them as allies, then we too become part of the problem. We become complicit in male violence. That is a problem.
I use the term alt-right because I spend a lot of time actually fighting the right people and I don't distinguish whether they're American, British or whatever... It is the internet and there is a lot of overlap. My experience is that a lot of incels and misogynists are also far right or alt-right and regardless of where they live in the world they support Trump. There's a lot of overlap.
And as for the womb transplant thing... seriously why does it matter? Why are people getting angry over something that doesn't affect their lives? Why not get angry about something that does affect our lives? As long as whoever is involved is a consenting adult and knows the risks, then let them get on with it. The chances are it will never be approved to be performed on the NHS but that's a discussion that can be held when it becomes an actual possibility.
In the meanwhile, let's try and be a bit more loving, a little less hating, and focus our attention on the real problem.