MWMF

The owner and policy maker of the Michigan Women's Music Festival (MWMF) has issued a affirmation of the policy that the festival is off-limits to transwomen, specifically referring to those women who are born male but are women. Ok, discrimination at its worst but I'm curious.

How exactly does the organizers decide which women to exclude if a former transwomen, meaning a woman who has fully transitioned physically, yes that surgery, and legally? Do they do DNA tests on each women to establish their chromosomes?

We know that some transwomen and former transwomen (transitioned) have attended the festival so the policy is bogus at best since some of the organizers have admited these women. So what exactly do the women at the festival have against women who haven't fully transitioned?

[Note.-- One transwoman actually wrote about it a column, but has since left the place she wrote columns. She wrote she spoke out at the festival about this discrimination but then said it was a private conversation with one organizer who was a friend.]

Do they think they're men in disguise? Like say butch dykes or transmen who are allowed to attend because they are XX and have a vagina, even though some recognize as men and not women? How many transmen attend because they still have a friendship with women?

And what about women born women who don't necessarily look female or act feminine, do they get scrutinized for their sex and gender? And who is the police for this, or do they really care and admit women in regardless if they have the proper documentation?

The whole thing on the part of the owner and organizers is a sham and a shame on women. I agree with Andrea Gibson and the Indigo Girls for boycotting it year and next year, respectively. I agree more performers, artist and prominent people should speak up and boycott the event.

The law allows the owner and organizers of the MWMF to discriminate, the same way the Boy Scouts ban gays except they've had gay in the organization for decades as transwomen and former transwomen have attended the MWMF.

It's funny that women who scream the loudest at discrimination by men decide to discriminate against other women, but no matter how they try to describe and explain this policy and practice, it's exactly what they would scream against if it was focused on them.

Women have cried foul on men-only clubs, organizations, and events, such as the Augusta National Golf Club recently, and even filed lawsuits against privately own ones for outright and obvious discrimination, but then say it's ok for them to discriminate and call it fair?

It's time for the MWMF to change. What do these women who are the festival and those who attend it fear from other women, a fear solely based on birth sex? What don't they know about the Civil Rights Act that they have used so often when it's discrimination against them and now it's they who discriminate?