Remember, cis women cannot be convicted of rape in the UK. Would not be surprised if the entire Potter-funded TERF cult over there was really just a sex abuse ring using the "protect women" thing as projective camouflage, as well as the entire transmisogynistic legal framework. Was pretty similar affair when TERFS tried to defend Neil Gaiman, even teaming up with nazis to do so.
Calling it now, slowly TERFs (cis women included) will be consistently outed as sexual predators and the mainstream press/UK legal system will openly ignore it. Will post here when it inevitably happens. Maybe it already has and I missed it.
Now mix the above knowledge with the fact that one of the earliest women to come forward with CSA allegations against Epstein was a latina trans woman (a literal heroine called Ava Cordero), who was mocked and dehumanised by the press... the above makes sense. If Ava were believed and Epstein were arrested over 1000 women and girls would of be spared.
Transmisogyny is part of rape culture, and distilled patriarchy. There is a reason trans porn consumption is highest in republican states in the US - we are seen as fuckable, disposable, infertile, fascinating and have our capacity to fight back and defend ourselves legally and socially suppressed. We are the perfect sex slaves.
Obviously this goes hand-in-hand in reducing cis women (and other uterus-havers) to reproduction, and phenomena such overturning of as Roe vs. Wade and 'tradwife' aesthetics. We are dehumanised to disposable pleasure-objects, 'freemartins', while our cis/AFAB sisters/siblings/brothers are dehumanised to mere broodmares. Men - in particular bourgeoisie men - benefit either way. This is the future patriarchal, fascistic figures want - a sexual and reproductive slave-class with no material capacity to fight back. Below even proletarian man (potentially as an attempt to subdue them).
Structural transmisogyny is less to do with ignorance, religion, intolerance of ambiguity etc, and more to do with creating patriarchal sexual slavery/reproductive control. The Freudian idea of the madonna/whore complex reified into society as patriarchy's final form.
This may not be the future TERFs allegedly want, but it is the future TERFs will create as useful idiots for fascistic patriarchs. Patriarchy is exploiting cis women's trauma/fear of assault (or in JK's case, inability to come out as a trans man) and loss of bodily autonomy and projecting it at trans women. Not because we are responsible but because we elicit a basic disgust response (from our surgeries, hormones, lack of passing etc - all based on misinformation and propaganda, portrayals in media) that is far more convincing than any data. All the elaborate TERF theories (autogynephilia, social contagion etc) are just retroactive ad hoc justifications for an emotional reaction. It's why rational argument doesn't change their minds. That is why the "protecting women and girls" idea is a complete lie, and why TERFs are not even remotely feminists.
And this gambit is working. Cis and trans women (and other minority genders) need to work together to fight this. As long as we are divided, we are distracted from real enemy - fascists and billionaires who want to make the world a giant harem and breeding ground after they have extracted every drop of oil and eliminated every threat to their authority. Men who see Genghis Khan as an inspiration, who thought 'comfort women' were a good idea. We can only stop rape culture together, and we are losing because of them.
This is the reason Margaret Atwood is not a TERF. TERFs may think they are the 'handmaidens', but in reality they are helping create the new Gilead.