If you walk like a bigot, and quack like a bigot, and involve yourself with bigoted people, places and things, then you must be bigoted.
Hang your heads in shame.
From a brilliant column on http://transadvocate.com: (http://transadvocate.com/beckygrrl/?p=35)
Michfest: The Bigotry Continues
Any woman who might even think of calling herself a feminist knows that a bio-determinist policy, such as the “womyn born womyn” policy, which has been symbolically softened from refusal of admittance to transwomen to being willing to sell transwomen tickets to enter but still officially banning transsexual women, is an antiquated anathema to feminism’s most basic tenets.
It continues to amaze me how some women attendees and performers both, seem perfectly comfortable playing both sides (of) the fence, saying they’re against the WBW policy but are still willing to support the event with their participation. From my perspective, when I hear women talking about how positive and how freeing Michfest is, I feel roughly about the same as if I were listening to people talking about what a wonderful time they had at the last KKK Barbecue. And yes, before you ask, it is comparable.
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You cannot attend or perform at Michfest and claim you support transpeople any more than you can attend that KKK BBQ and claim you support African-Americans. It’s only when people stand up and refuse to tacitly endorse hate with their participation in such events that real change finally occurs.
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