How does Michigan Womyns Music Festival enforce this policy?
It doesn’t and it can’t. In fact, the festival instituted a policy of not questioning any individual’s gender presentation in order to prevent harassment against transgender women who otherwise qualify as “womyn-born womyn.” The festival’s 2001 handout states: “We ask all Festival-goers and staff to honor our commitment that no womon’s gender will be questioned on the land. […] Butch/gender-ambiguous womyn should be able to move about our community with confidence that their right to be here will not be questioned. […] We also have a commitment to run the Festival in a way that keeps faith with the womyn-born womyn policy, which may mean denying admission to individuals who self-declare as male-to-female transsexuals or female-to-male transsexuals now living as men (or asking them to leave if they enter).” Some transsexual women including Davina Anne Gabriel, the editor of now-defunct newsletter, TransSisters, view this intentional absence of enforcement mechanism as a de facto acc
