Kaia Wilson confirmed this in a June 1999 statement: "strongly believe that transgender/transsexual people are an important part of the queer community and that they face an enormous amount of opposition. [... We know that the MWMF started as a separatist event for womyn born womyn and we personally still feel the continued need for that kind of space and event. [...] We don't think that our support of the trans communities and womyn born womyn communities are in direct contradiction to each other."