This brings to mind another point. I don't know if you or others have watched the video about gender earlier in the thread (the full series is here:
http://www.crossdressers.com/forums/...ead.php?175742), but I'm guessing that men who are prone to homophobia might be particularly nasty towards transwomen who are genuinely sexy by both TS and GG standards, in other words if these homophobes truly have no clue ahead of time that the woman he is attracted to is trans. There's a big difference between looking like this:
http://krodack.files.wordpress.com/2...iladyboys1.jpg
(This pic was taken from this article:
https://pittqueertheoryf11.wordpress...d-sexing-race/)
... and looking like the majority of CDers who post pics in the Gallery here. Although many of our members are beautiful,
they are not in the same league as the transwomen in the picture above (they're not on hormones, they haven't had FFS, they may be much older). I shouldn't think they'd incite the same type of violence and hostility, since in real life, people can tell they are not genetic women when they look closely or interact with them, and therefore they won't "fool" a homophobe in the same way. There's a subtle difference here but it may be an important one.
It's complicated though, and I've no doubt there is still strong hostility among some homophobes just based on a general hatred of transfolks, even if they are not attracted to her because they know ahead of time she is not a GG. Some of the pics of the transwomen who were murdered in post #78 show transwomen past a certain age who as previously mentioned, were attractive but without being in the same league as a Thailand showgirl.