They are always associated with "radical feminism".

... and I have never seen an issue.

People generally modify their statements to accomodate those around them, especially when their views are anti-transgender viciousness.

Now, there have been many recent attempts to try to separate themselves from this dark legacy, but it is really nothing more than damage control.

Here are some of the many, many, many links and they are NOT from men's groups. But really, even a little bit of effort will show you that at the heart of radical feminism is the a strong paranoia against m-f transgender people.

http://www.thefword.org.uk/blog/2012/05/theres_nothing

http://vaguelyhumanoid.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/radical-feminist-transphobia-a-patriarchal-ideology/

http://www.feminist-reprise.org/docs/radfemtrans.html

a feminist that dislikes transgendered folk.

-or lack thereof- on DU mourned, right now elsewhere on this site.

And yes indeed everyone concerned knows full well the history.

The Radfem conference has been cancelled the last two years because they were afraid men were cutting off their penes in order to sneak in.
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/04/terfs-radfem-hatefest-booted-from.html

They are most certainly out there.

That doesn't mean they don't exist.

http://www.amazon.com/Transsexual-Empire-Making-She-Male-Athene/dp/0807762725

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jan/31/gender.weekend7

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/may/25/radical-feminism-trans-radfem2012

Simply put, TERFs hate transgender women for two reasons. First, TERFs want to eliminate gender roles and they believe that transgender women shore them up. Second, TERFs define transgender women as men based on the anatomical circumstances of their birth and believe that "actual" women must be protected from these men in order to be safe.
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TERFs despise transgender women so much, in fact, that they end up contradicting their most beloved political commitments in order to reject them. On the Radfem 2013 website, they profess: "We believe that gender is a destructive hierarchy, which harms women and needs to be abolished." But on the same page, they write:
We welcome radical feminists and those women who want to learn more about radical feminism. It is women-only because we believe that we need to organise autonomously in order to fight for our freedom from patriarchy.
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And, indeed, the penis is at the center of TERF politics. One of the most famous images of Catherine Brennan shows her holding a sign, addressed to transgender women, reading: "Sorry about your dick." Over six decades after Simone de Beauvoir refuted the Freudian notion that "anatomy is destiny," the folks in Brennan's camp vigorously defend it in all its reductiveness. It's past time to stop listening to feminists whose politics have an expiration date of 1949 and it's high time to start fashioning radical communities into safer places for trans* folks.

It is still limited to your own personal experience.

Do you think the links are fake? Do you think it isn't really happening in the real world?

I guess I don't understand... do you think your experience encompasses all of reality?

LGBT friends deal eith are caused by MEN.

And I hope that I am also allowed to share links which really occur and have had a big impact on both the feminist movement and the transgender rights movement.

I definitely agree that it runs contrary to most feminists systems of belief to be transphobic.

However, to the extent that it exists, it points quite clearly to the extreme hatred of men that exists among some who identify as radical feminists.

Furthermore, as the OP points out, one should seriously wonder what why a feminist would want to stick to a label that has been so badly poisoned by the anti-transgender attitudes.

After all, it isn't as if the term "feminist" has become meaningless.

I really can't understand why, after all the poisonous bile that has been unleashed at transgender people, that any feminist would want to identify themselves with such a group.

I wonder how much of the attempts at rehabilitation they have done are sincere and how much are just politics.

It would be naive to pretend that some feminists have indeed become so radicalized that they truly do "hate men". I cannot say who or how many, but the paranoia displayed against transgender men is a real thing and points unquestionably to truly emotionally disturbed levels.

*snork*

Does ANYONE think of women as "sperm receptacles"?

Do any of our gay men in this group think of themselves as that or is that just another heteronormative hiccup on their part?