Anonymous wrote:This does not surprise me at all, and I am NOT a conservative.
Some (not all!!!!!!) in the trans community have been threatening and even assaulting women, especially lesbians, for years.
It has created a wide rift in the lesbian community between those supporting trans rights and those who are considered radical feminists.
For example, whether trans women, even ones who still have penises and have not started any kind of hormones treatment, should be allowed into women-only spaces.
Trans-rights feminists say yes, but many lesbians and "radical feminists" say no -- that it is just another example of men breeching women's spaces.
This article in the New Yorker gives a little bit of an idea. In general tho, this is off the radar for most people.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/04/woman-2
The all-women's music festival in Michigan called MichFest is now ending after 40 years. The past few years have been very tough with trans activists setting up Camp Trans across from the festival to protest being excluded. Some have been engaged in violence and vandalism, such as spray painting "Real Womyn Have Cocks" on the side of the festival kitchen.
I know there are DCUM posters who will automatically defend whatever any trans person does, and accuse me of all kinds of bigotry, but there are probably a few curious minds out there who didn't know about all this.