also in SF was the issue of sandy Stone and Olivia Records

Olivia Records hired Sandy Stone to help them record their performers. Olivia Records was the only record company that would produce music with explicit lesbian/women-centered content, and as such was struggling to break even financially. Protestors forced Olivia Records to fire Sandy Stone when it became known that she was a transsexual. The Olivia Collective was supportive, but in the end had to ask Sandy for her letter of resignation for fear of having Olivia Records shut down (it was the only women run record company at that time).

So when it comes down to a question of attidue, which came first, the chicken or the egg. Everything I've read regarding feminist behaviour towards trans people at that time suggests they refused to acccept them as anything other than men in drag and consequently attacked the very basis of the fragile identity these transwomen were trying to establish. If in response trans people became resentful, then I'm not surprised.

however, if some of these transwomen continued to behave in a male way and just felt entitled to be treated as a woman whilst continuing with male cultural entitlement then maybe feminist anger was justified. I dunno, but the headline stories I point to don't support that. rather I think the ideology of the time was  driving the interpretation.

There remains even now a whole feminist culture of language regarding trans. If women behave aggressively towards transpeople then it's justifiable feminine outrage and thus acceptable. If transwomen react angrily then it's obviously male-power and entitlement and thereby QED, male behaviour from a man who must be resisted. Equally, if we respond quietly and with dignity, then we are adopting stereotyped feminine behaviours that no real woman would show, so we are seen as acting out rather than being. Either way we lose.

I also note the way these feminist narratives erase transmen. Feminists regard transmen as just extreme dykes, whilst transwomen are agents of patriarchy. Either way, the change of identity is not respected.

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