Editing Transphobia (section)

===Gay and lesbian communities===
[[File:Ticked Off Trannies protesters Shankbone 2010.jpg|thumb|Protesters outside the 2010 premiere of ''[[Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives]]'', written and directed by gay filmmaker [[Israel Luna (filmmaker)|Israel Luna]], objecting to what they considered to be transphobic portrayals in the film and its trailer, which referred to several notable real-life murders of transgender people before being taken down<ref name="Tribeca">{{cite web |url=http://blogs.reuters.com/fanfare/2010/04/25/ticked-off-trannies-and-detractors-take-on-tribeca/ |title=Ticked-Off Trannies," and detractors, take on Tribeca |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100701101412/http://blogs.reuters.com/fanfare/2010/04/25/ticked-off-trannies-and-detractors-take-on-tribeca/ |archive-date=1 July 2010 |first1=Edith |last1=Honan|date=25 April 2010}}.</ref>]]

Historian [[Joanne Meyerowitz]] documented transphobia within the [[gay rights movement]] in the mid 20th century in response to publicity surrounding the transition of [[Christine Jorgensen]]. Jorgensen, who made frequent [[Homophobia|homophobic]] remarks and insisted she was not connected to or identified with gay men, was a polarizing figure among activists:

{{blockquote|In 1953, for example, ''ONE'' magazine published a debate among its readers as to whether gay men should denounce Jorgensen. In the opening salvo, the author Jeff Winters accused Jorgensen of a "sweeping disservice" to gay men. "As far as the public knows," Winters wrote, "you were merely another unhappy homosexual who decided to get drastic about it." For Winters, Jorgensen's story simply confirmed the false belief that all men attracted to other men must be basically feminine," which, he said, "they are not." Jorgensen's precedent, he thought, encouraged the "reasoning" that led "to legal limitations upon the homosexual, mandatory injections, psychiatric treatment – and worse." In the not-so-distant past, scientists had experimented with castrating gay men.|author=[[Joanne Meyerowitz]]<ref name="meyerowitz2002">{{Cite book |last=Meyerowitz |first=Joanne J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XFP2PmYPBBAC |title=How sex changed: a history of transsexuality in the United States |date=2002 |isbn=9780674009257 |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |oclc=654274727}}</ref>}}

Several prominent figures in [[second wave feminism]] have also been accused of transphobic attitudes, culminating in 1979 with the publication of ''[[The Transsexual Empire]]'' by [[Radical feminism|radical lesbian feminist]] [[Janice Raymond]], who popularized the term ''[[shemale]]'' as derogatory slur referring to [[trans women]] in 1994,<ref name="Raymond 1994"/> and her statements on transsexuality and transsexual people have been criticized by many in the [[LGBT]] and [[feminism|feminist]] communities as extremely [[transphobic]] and as constituting [[hate speech]].<ref name="rose2004">Rose, Katrina C. (2004) "." ''Transgender Tapestry'' 104, Winter 2004</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |author=Katrina C Rose |url=https://archive.org/details/TransgenderTapestryIssue104Winter2004/page/n59/mode/2up |title=The Man Who Would be Janice Raymond |type=Review |page=56 |magazine=Transgender Tapestry |date=Winter 2004 |issue=104}}</ref><ref name="serano2007">[[Julia Serano]] (2007) ''Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity'', pp. 233–234</ref><ref>{{Cite book |author-link=Julia Serano |last=Serano |first=Julia |url=https://archive.org/details/whippinggirltran0000sera/page/n233/mode/2up |title=Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity |date=2007 |location=Berkeley, California |oclc=81252738 |publisher=[[Seal Press]]; [[Internet Archive]] |isbn=9781580051545}}</ref><ref name="namaste2000">Namaste, Viviane K. (2000) ''Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People'', pp. 33–34.</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Namaste |first=Viviane K. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pq5jwRVbvY8C |title=Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People |date=2000 |isbn=9780226568102 |location=Chicago |publisher=University of Chicago Press |pages=33–34 |oclc=43526777}}</ref><ref name="hayes2003">{{cite journal | last1 = Hayes | first1 = Cressida J | year = 2003 | title = Feminist Solidarity after Queer Theory: The Case of Transgender | journal = Signs | volume = 28 | issue = 4| pages = 1093–1120 | doi=10.1086/343132| s2cid = 144107471 }}</ref>

In 1950s America, there was a debate among gay men and women about those who felt they were of the opposite sex. Gay men and women who were trying to melt quietly into the majority society criticized them as "freaks" who brought unwanted disreputable attention upon them. Such attitudes were widespread at the time.<ref name="GLBTphobia">{{cite web |last=Weiss |first=Jillian Todd |title=GL vs. BT: The Archaeology of Biphobia and Transphobia Within the U.S. Gay and Lesbian Community |url=http://phobos.ramapo.edu/~jweiss/glvsbt.htm |access-date=7 July 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329150447/http://phobos.ramapo.edu/~jweiss/glvsbt.htm |archive-date=29 March 2016 }}{{better source needed|date=April 2016|reason=professor cut/paste of a published journal paper is not the best source and may be copyvio }} quoting Kay Brown of Transhistory.net [defunct since 2009]</ref>

Some [[trans men]] face rejection from lesbian communities they had been part of prior to transition. Journalist Louise Rafkin writes, "there are those who are feeling curiously uncomfortable standing by as friends morph into men. Sometimes there is a generational flavor to this discomfort; many in the over-40 crowd feel particular unease", stating that this was "shaking the foundation of the lesbian-feminist world".<ref name="rafkin">Rafkin, Louise (22 June 2003) [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/06/22/CM254728.DTL Straddling Sexes: Young lesbians transitioning into men are shaking the foundation of the lesbian-feminist world.] ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]''.</ref> Trans men were part of the protest at the 2000 [[Michigan Womyn's Music Festival]], the first time the '[[womyn-born womyn]] only' policy has been used against trans males, women supporting the transgender community and young gender-variant women.<ref name="mantilla2000">Mantilla, Karla (1 October 2000). Michigan: transgender controversy. ''[[Off Our Backs]]''.</ref>

In the early 1970s, conflicts began to emerge due to different syntheses of lesbian, [[feminist]] and transgender political movements, particularly in the United States. San Francisco trans activist and entertainer [[Beth Elliott]] became the focus of debate over whether to include transgender lesbians in the movement, and she was eventually blacklisted by her own movement.<ref name="rubin2003">Henry Rubin (2003). ''Self-made Men: Identity and Embodiment Among Transsexual Men.'' Vanderbilt University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-8265-1435-6}}.</ref><ref name="nettick">Geri Nettick, Beth Elliot (1996). "Mirrors: Portrait of a Lesbian Transsexual." Badboy Books {{ISBN|978-1-56333-435-1}}.</ref>