SPRINGFIELD — In a display of what organizers described as “unprecedented solidarity and lived experience,” this year’s International Women’s Day event was headlined, moderated, keynoted, panel-led, merchandise-designed, sound-checked, and emotionally centered almost exclusively by local men who think they’re women.

“Really, the best women are biological men who think they’re women, and we’re finally coming to that realization as a society,” said the IWD’s founder and President Minka Logicky.

The March 8 event at the downtown community center attracted roughly 230 attendees, of whom 192 were trans women who “finally felt safe enough to take up space.” Guests were welcomed by a seven-person greeting team—all in matching “The Future Is Female” hoodies custom-printed with the phrase “and I’m proof” in Comic Sans.

Keynote speaker Taylor “TayTay” Monroe, a 29-year-old life coach, Reiki practitioner, and full-time TikTok gender-studies commentator, delivered a 52-minute address on the intersections of transmisogyny, period poverty (framed as a vibe), and the urgent need for more trans women to lead women’s advocacy. Monroe paused only to sip oat-milk matcha and ask the audience, “Does anyone need me to explain what womanhood actually feels like?”

Celebrations across the globe focused on local transwomen who have made a difference in the acknowledgement that men who think they’re women are really the best women.

“This International Women’s Day is so important because we’re finally realizing that women who are women are great, but even better than that are men who are women,” Logicky added.

IWD’s other major cause is to celebrate women by ensuring their right to nullify their woman-hood through abortion.

_{Originally published March 8, 2020.}

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