It makes me sad still. Feminism is better than this, but it persists.
Adrienne Rich was thanked by Janice Raymond in The Transsexual Empire.
She was also thanked by Leslie Feinberg and Minnie Bruce Pratt in their books, which may mean she was only ever okay with some FTM spectrum trans people. So maybe she was only trans misogynist, which is hardly better.
If anyone has any actual evidence in her work of her feelings about transness, I would love to know.
Some days the irony of “biology is not destiny” being a feminist slogan isn’t funny at all.