I will, however, take exception with the inordinate focus of this and other blogs on men who become and/or live as women. Women who become men are also targets of discrimination and violence, but I feel as though they are completely invisible in these discussions. You literally say, over and over, “trans women” as though trans men don’t exist or suffer as well. I wish you wouldn’t do that.

TamTam, I will simply say that you state in a single paragraph both that it’s an understandable reaction for a man to kill a trans person upon finding out that they’re trans, and that “there is no need” for anyone to ever hide their trans status.
You also hold the murder victim to be “cowardly,” but spare no harsh words for the coward who not only murdered her, but was cowardly enough to lie about his motivations and say he’d just met her and was shocked about her trans status, rather than being honest about his own motivations and prior association with her, so he’d be less accountable for his actions.

But then, your comment is generally extraordinarily offensive. I’m not sure I feel like dignifying it with any further response.

You really ought to read the follow-up post for two reasons. For one, Sanesha Stewart is her actual name, by law and by usage — whatever standard you want to apply. For another, subsequent reporting on the case has uncovered the fact that the killer had known her from some time, and the story about being deceived was probably a fabrication — as it has been in other cases like this one. All included in the post above. The whole “deception leading to murder” idea is most often not much more than a myth.