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National justice orgs say: End trans exclusion policy at Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival

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The National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC) has joined the Gay & Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the Nation Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and several other social justice organizations in petitioning that the trans-exclusionary policy of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival (MWMF) end. In recent years, the MWMF trans exclusionary policy has been rebranded as merely a trans-exclusionary “intention.” In the face of MWMF’s continued anti-trans policy intention, the nation’s leading equality organizations have joined Equality Michigan in petitioning the festival to end its decades of prominent discrimination. Historical Context: MWMF TERFs organizers supported the targeting of a Radical Feminist, Lesbian-separatist music collective for being trans-inclusive and led to armed TERFs threatening the life of a trans woman. Lisa Vogel’s fist inspired trans-inclusive Women’s Music Festivals MWMF violence led to the creation of Camp Trans while Leather Dykes and the Lesbian Avengers offered bodyguard protection for

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“National justice orgs say: End trans exclusion policy at Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to law and civil rights, while also engaging public policy and governance. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

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The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning law and civil rights. Published in 2014 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how public policy and governance was framed at that moment.

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“National justice orgs say: End trans exclusion policy at Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with law and civil rights. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for public policy and governance.

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Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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As of this year, numerous national social justice organizations have joined with the trans community in asking the MWMF to bring an end to their decades of exclusion. If you would like to support the intention formed in 1991 to answer discrimination with coalition-building, education,…