Objectively, that is true.
However, I think it is reasonable of women to expect that on a Feminism-Women's-Rights board, if nowhere else, that their stories of being abused by men with sexual paraphilias would be given more credence than the stories of abusive men with sexual paraphilias.
Those men get to tell their stories regularly in the mainstream media and on TV, where they are celebrated uncritically.
Transwidows and the children of transitioners are, by comparison, virtually invisible.
When they do tell their stories they normally only attract media interest when they too celebrate the AGPs in their families. The only exception I can think of off-hand is when Suki Morys, Jan (James) Morris's daughter, wrote about her father and, shock horror!, she described a monster rather than the sweet and endearing little-old-lady persona that Morris had projected to the outside world.
Nobody would have cared what Suki Morys had to say if her father had not been famous. Nobody, that is, except the women on the Transwidows threads that Tinsel set up on the FWR Board on Mumsnet and, I would have hoped, women on other FWR threads.
Another downside of promoting the stories that AGPs tell is that when those stories put them in a negative light and we are shocked or disgusted by their gruesome revelations, that is exactly how they want us to feel. It is another cheap thrill for them.
Those stories also confirm what Transwidows and children of transitioners tell us.
So it is not a question of having to decide who to believe but of deciding whether we want to listen to women and children, or to the men who have abused them. Whether we want to promote abusive men, or the women and children they have abused.
Tinsel's website is literally called, "Transwidow's Voices". It blows my mind that women posting on FWR would not want to listen to them, or would listen but not believe what they say.
In what other circumstances would women posting on FWR say, "We are all free to decide which ones we believe."
Women who have suffered CSA - or paedophiles? Women who have suffered domestic violence - or the men who have brutalised them? Women who have been groomed into coercively controlling relationships - or the predators who held them captive?
Why the exception for Transwidows and children of transitioners?
Why, of all the women and children who have suffered abuse at the hands of men, of all the women and children who have endured family life with a man with a sexual paraphilia, why would we doubt that Transwidows and children of transitioners are telling the truth?
I am beginning to wonder if Unusualdog was wrong and these men are able to cast spells over women. I cannot think of any rational explanation for the suggestion that, as far as Transwidows, children of transitioners and AGPs are concerned, "We are all free to decide which ones we believe.".