Glad you were able to get through to them. I talked about it to my mom and she just kept declaring TWAW. I explained some of the risks to women in prisons and in women's shelters, citing specific examples, and she actually didn't believe me. She said the events I was describing were too bizarre and couldn't possibly be real. This is why I think we really need to focus on documenting the evidence for the effects of these laws. I think her perspective is an example of the fact that middle-class women are sometimes unable to see the truth because they really do not have any experience of what life is like for women who are lower on the scale of income, social power, and family support, or of how having female biology creates material disadvantages for those women that make them vulnerable to misbehavior by men.