I keep reading that ...

Fest is a healing space for gender-nonconforming womyn, as long as they're not trans womyn too, and therefore Fest must exclude trans womyn...

I can’t see how the first implies the second.

I can’t see how excluding and othering one often-marginalized group of womyn would strengthen healing space for another group of womyn.

And, well, it hurts with this headache, but it also hurts when people treat trans womyn’s bodies as symbols of violence, when we are often also survivors of that violence, and it again hurts when people treat our struggles to survive or to recover as forms of violence.

And, well, it’s quite possible that more trans womyn are autistic than other womyn, and are being misread once more.

Also, I have encountered this, here:

http://redressalert.tumblr.com/post/96419964145/what-michfest-means-to-me

and via DaisyDeadhead, here:

http://lavenderjanestrikesback.tumblr.com/post/97177287294/confessions-of-a-skeptic-at-the-michigan-womyns-music

and various other places.

If I thought active inclusion for trans womyn would mean dis-inclusion for various other womyn, then I would think that some spaces including each group and excluding another would be necessary. But I don’t think so, and I think this would screw over people who are both, or who have some experiences associated with both.