An Other Space

SUMMARY

What happens when sectors of a lesbian community advocate for a space free of trans women? How do the responses to those types of policies, from within MTF trans communities, impact upon MTF trans women as a whole? How do these types of conflicts impact upon lesbians whose relationship to the term ‘born female’ is not straightforward? What does the focus upon these instances of conflict in the mainstream media mean and what effect does this focus have upon broader understandings about lesbians, lesbian communities and the complex intersections between lesbian and trans?

Key Words:

• Lesbian normativity
• trans nomativity
• Australian lesbian communities
• Australian trans communities
• lesbian social research