btw, I notice that you referred to Raymond being inspired to write by the attitudes of various transwomen in SF at the time. Yet the emblemetic one mentioned by Raymond was Sandy Stone herself (Olivia Records) where it was Raymond leading the charge demanding that Stone be sacked.

When Olivia records personnel released a statement saying that Sandy was a woman they trusted, Raymond sneered that they should admit they just needed a man about the place. So, judging by the fact that the women who knew her believed in her transistion whilst those who were ideologically motivated trashed the feminist credentials of those who defended her shows it wsn't an argument about Stone herself, but ideas about feminism and transgenderism.

So if your partner bases her hatred of transwomen on Raymond's say so, I'd suggest she was was relying on hearsay and dogma rather than thought and experience. And sorry to say, that's about par for the course from the feminists I've encountered.

keep to the Fen Causeway