Did you know that the people harassed on the street were actually trans? Or did you assume by looking at them? Have you seen other people harassed on the street too?
Yes, I know they were trans. It's not often hard to tell, is it? And yes of course I have, since when do you have to deny one problem to acknowledge another?
You really don't think that someone clearly male, in women's clothing, is going to meet with abuse at times? Seriously? And that someone who is female isn't going to be getting homophobic abuse, when dressed and presenting in a way that a homophobe will probably read as gay, rather than trans?
Obviously women are constantly subjected to street harassment, and obviously crime against us is massively under-reported. I never reported any street harassment, or even groping in pubs and clubs, because it never even occurred to me that it was criminal behaviour, at the time (in my late teens and in my 20s). That doesn't mean crime against women makes crime against trans people impossible, or even less likely. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
I'm absolutely clear that humans can't change sex, and that women need and have a right to retain our spaces, provision, and definition. That doesn't mean I think people who transgress what is regarded as gendered norms deserve to be rendered vulnerable by it.
You can recognise a problem exists for a group of male people, without thinking it's for women to solve by sacrificing our own provision, protection, and legal definition. And when it comes to trans men then it is part of our problem, because their biology renders them more vulnerable, too.
There are a lot of trans women sexually assaulted in male prisons, for example, relatively speaking. Clearly I think it abhorrent that the solution demanded is to harm women instead, by housing trans women in the female estate. Women are not human shields for male people. But I do think separate trans provision is necessary. Nobody deserves to be harmed or abused, not by anyone. And while the stats may not be reliable, who knows, at the moment they're the only stats we have. So it's right to accept that they exist and that if correct, that's not okay.
Misogyny permeates our culture. Every woman alive is subject, at various points, to street harassment. We all know that. It doesn't mean trans people aren't also getting crap from angry and aggressive men, because they police gender expression as part of their misogyny. And no, it's not our problem to solve, clearly. That doesn't mean it isn't a problem at all. I don't need to deny what I regard as reality, or harm meted out to a completely different group of people, in order to defend women's rights.