It’s a narrative of righteous self-defense against rapacious neoliberal invasion, but in its panic-mongering about genderfluid foreignness, it fuses seamlessly with a much older British feminism of fear. The construct of the trans woman freighted with sexual menace is, after all, one that imagines her not only as an un-woman, but as fundamentally un-British too (European xenophobia has frequently used anti-“American”-ism as the more acceptable cover for feelings about aliens more generally).
