Just my two cents on this issue, which has already been discussed fairly
thoroughly--
but it seems like the "and trans" is often tagged on the end. The discussion has
been entirely about women, which is a discussion that needs to take place, but
what about the transpeople? There are a whole other set of issues at work here-
how masculinity gets defined in the shop, and who gets to define it- the cismen
or the transmen.
As a fairly iffeminate transman and amateur bike mechanic, I get a lot of hate
from more masculine transmen, plus the standard, run of the mill sexism from
cis-gendered men.
Can transmen be included in a woman's only or women-identified space? We face
some of the same issues of oppression by patriarchy and homophobia as cis women
and queer peoples, but our issues are different in a lot of ways.
-K