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I had to Google it. Exhibit A would be the organizers of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, which banned transwomen from attending through most of its recently concluded existence. 
edit: So might this be described as a TERF war? 
Sex Worker Exclusive Radical Feminist. They exclude sex workers from any kind of liberation movement, which ironically leaves the entire sex work trade in the hands of men, instead of helping women empower themselves to take charge.
It's lovely to see people go to town when SWERF and TERF is on the menu 
It's a valid criticism to say there's concern that trans people have no biological evidence of their gender identity and there is good reason to believe that there is some deep unexplainable need to reshape themselves to gender norms.
As a gay man, I don't accept that "transphobia" is a useful word, or that it's comparable to homophobia. When people say "transphobia" they usually mean simple common sense skepticism. Just because a man says he is a woman doesn't make him one, and doesn't rate comparison with anti-gay hatred.
The fact men and women are pure biological categories implies NOTHING about the way men and women can or should behave. As I said, male and female are simple facts about a person. We SHOULD be fighting stereotypes about what it means to be male and female, and as a gay man, that's intrinsically bound to ending homophobia.
LGB activism [alongside classic feminism] is about expanding and re-defining concepts of gender; but transgender activism is about re-asserting and codifying traditional gender.
Second, let's be clear that the author of the quoted piece is herself a TERF and her agenda is clear in the piece. TERFs are engaged in some seriously fucked up behavior toward trans people
When you look at what the trans activists are saying online, it's nothing but vitriol and death threats, especially towards women. The word "TERF" is a slur. Online, nothing but thousands of the vilest kind of threats to "TERFS". To women, not to men who actually are violent to transgenders.
Come on now: let’s be real. Who’s the one inciting violence?
Never in the history of social movements has there been such public and casual calls to kill other humans as there is with Trans.
This is neurobabble and non-science. There is no science I'm aware of that proves "gender identity" has an objective existence. I am qualified in science, and I've looked into it. "Gender identity" is a supernatural claim. All the "brain studies" that get trotted out time and again simply do not prove otherwise. The brain is a flexible organ, and differences between men and women can be purely down to socialization. Moreover, gender identity disorder is diagnosed on subjective criteria.
We don't have the faintest idea in what way homosexuality, love of music, or preference for chocolate icre cream manifests in the head, and we're supposed to believe we have solid proof that "gender" exists and where it is localized in the brain, separately to biological sex? Come on, that simply isn't credible.
I find it bewildering that women fought so hard against the notion that women and men are somehow inherently different in ways that matter, who now support this claim when transgenders make it! It's just scientific sexism.
The John/Joan case does not prove otherwise; nothing about a single person can prove any general case, let alone a child who was sexually abused by Mengele-like psychiatrists. Mutilating a boy who then says he is not a girl does not prove that boys who claim to be female are ever female, let alone always female.
This is a bewildering form of science denial. It's a left-wing version of creationism.
We are supposed to believe that Bruce Jenner who is the biological father of 6 children by 3 different wives is magically and mysteriously just like intersex people because of his special “lady brain”. This is bullshit and people know it.
We’re told “gender is not sex” like a mantra bereft of enlightenment. Well, what is gender? They never answer. Where did it come from? They never answer. Reality is that male/female sex dimorphism is how mammals reproduce. Define gender, I ask.
Gender is a socially constructed hierarchy of sex based norms imposed onto bodies. There. That wasn’t difficult, was it?
Now, it’s pretty obvious that such is absurd immaterialism. “Inner, transcendental gender essence” can’t hold under scrutiny, according to any understanding of self and subjectivity.
Transgenderists well know this.
So, to protect this essentialism, transgenderists bully anyone — women or transsexuals in particular — who know females (women) and male transwomen have differences. So that, recently, an American professor sought to ban the word female from the classroom, since it might hurt male feelings.
I kid you not: Biology is now considered offensive.
I hope your post doesn't get hidden because that needed to be said.
Tired of the transphobia and ALL bigotry here.
Remind me never to piss you off 
"fucking bullshit I never thought I'd see on a progressive site"
It's kind of a long name for a folder, but, sadly, it gets a lot of love.
How far back do we have to go before we see society treating gay men like you are treating the trans population? And guess who was there to help you out? Progressives. That we now have people that identify as progressives going on a progressive site and treating the trans population this way is nothing short of sickening.
