Btw, Texas is looking at a different hellish variation - making it a crime to use a license with correct gender marker if that differs from sex assigned at birth, including during traffic stops or other encounters with police.

Lots of guns in Texas. It's foolish for the Texas legislature to make a traffic stop a potentially lethal crime.

and at least two of those accounts targeted cis women--who were apparently very casually (maybe sloppily dressed) and I presume one or both were perceived as more "masculine"-looking.

Well, on those last two events family and friends intervened and police were called. It did not make the media, but I suspect as these incidents increase, they will. I'm not saying those episodes that involve cis women-ONLY should be those who get all of the attention, but it is true that it is those who may tip the outrage meter so that some may rethink these idiotic policies/efforts.

if a woman doesn't look like this week's fuck fantasy, she's butch and trash.

...where non trans women are simply trying to use the bathroom and the cops get called.

The right-wing media has given the paranoid populace the impression that there is some invasion of trans people. When people are asked to estimate how many trans people there are in a given state or area, they overestimate by many times the actual amount.

Same with sports. The rethugs know very well that they are putting girls in danger and allowing uneducated creep access, when states might have fewer than a dozen total trans young adults competing.

Trans people are a handy scapegoat and an even better excuse for universal body policing.