Funny you mention that. There's a group of pagans, i forget the name, that have female only skyclad sessions together. The leader won't let transwomen in and it's been driving them up a wall, but they suspiciously never ask to participate in any of the other rituals according to the leader of the group.
Back in the mid aughts, a Dianic priestess that I can't rember her name, was doing women's workshops at PSG, (and that other women's festival in the flyover states that I can't remember offhand,but might if I saw the name., Dunno if it still even happens anymore.)
(Also this was PSG post-eagle cave in Wi, but not by much, maybe 2nd or 3rd year? Dayam I'm old)
There was a tranny that wanted to go to the workshop, and the Dianic priestess was having NONE of it, because it was some women's rites(tm) workshops on women's mysteries and women's safety. There was a big blowup between the Dianics (which are incredibly martiarchal and VERY sexist, but also very funny, because they have ALWAYS accepted Flaming gay men, particularly the East Coast Dianics that used to be somewhat involved with that silly Salem cosplay/larper "witch" Lori Cabbot, ), and everybody else, and there were two camps arguing about it. Most of the folks just said Let the Lone Tranny in, but the diehard Dianics we're having fucking none of it, it's a women's mysteries workshop, we can't have men in there learning our ways, blaablabla make popcorn.
Eventually the priestess was saying she was gonna pull out over it, all the women who had traveled great distance to see this Dianic and do the workshops were pissed over ppl arguing over a single fucking tranny (a lot of "just let HIM watch it" or something,who cares camp)
The Dianic priestess initially held firm she was going to leave , then all the women be like PLEEEEESE STAYYYYY and she eventually relented because whoever was head bitch of PSG at the time (one of Selena Fox's lackeys, I think, (*also I can do a loooong diatribe and my personal experience back when on Selena but I'll save that for another post) basically said allow trannys or leave the event.
So anyway the Dianic priestess , when literally got her bluff called that she was free to leave and cancell her workshops if she wouldn't allow the tranny, did relent and allowed the tranny and didn't even bring it up when doing her workshops, but later said she had to amend her workshops because a "spy" was allowed in so that essentially the workshop wasn't as good as she had planned and had to alter her lectures or something. Then everybody of the women who attended was butthurt that they didn't get out of it what they had paid and traveled for.
There was definitely some talk about how inclusive paganism was or wasnt , but the tranny menace wasn't as popular a trend as it is now.
In the years since all women's workshops had to allow trannys and vice versa.
This is my personal memories, I used to be "involved" in the metaphysical/pagan circlesof the midwest in my 20s but drifted away from that by age 25 or so. There's multiple reasons for it, but communities change and my friend/band base were good friends with Selena and then were... Not good friends with Selena. It was an interesting time, but pagan communities changed quite a bit because of internet than they were in the 90s.
If any kiwi hasn't read "An open Letter To Selena Fox" it was posted in the late 90s by disgruntled former "followers" or volunteers or whatever and called her/her entourage out on all her shady money stuff and the Mt Horeb land. It is still on the internet of course with a basic Google search. Selena never responded or acted like it existed. the man who wrote it was good friends with another of my friends, they were older and had been in the pagan community for 20 30 yrs so it was a lot of drama that went down as a result of that open letter.
Am phonefag , I could write more later from a laptop but I'll just leave this here for now.