12. No Trans Women Are Allowed In These Communes
For many women who go into female communes or all-women events, they only feel comfortable doing that if they are around other cis women who understand the struggle of being born a into a patriarchal society that caters to men and teaches young girls to look and act a certain way.
When some third-wave feminists see transgender women, it makes them angry, because they feel like someone who is born a man should not be allowed to call themselves a woman. In their minds, a trans woman gets to enjoy all of the perks of enjoying their version of femininity by wearing makeup and female clothes without ever having to deal with the negative side of being born a woman and growing up in a marginalized group.
Some feminists feel the same way about trans women as some people feel about cultural appropriation. For some third-wave-feminists, a trans woman is just as bad as Rachel Dolezal; the white woman who identified as black and even fraudulently benefitted financially by pretending to be African American. Basically, they believe that someone from a non-oppressed group choosing to become apart of an oppressed group should not be allowed to join the club of the latter. Because of this debate, these all-female groups typically ban transgendered women from becoming members.