Sandy Stone, a trans woman and former in-house engineer at Olivia Records, experienced significant backlash for her gender identity within the feminist music scene of the 1970s. Despite her early recognition of her identity, Stone's involvement in radical feminist spaces led to resentment and accusations from peers, especially after the publication of Janice Raymond's book that targeted her specifically. The tensions surrounding Stone illustrate the complex dynamics of gender and feminism during that era, highlighting conflicts between inclusion and exclusion in social movements.
Despite being assigned male at birth and brought up as a boy, Sandy Stone intuitively recognized she was a girl as far back as she could remember.
After all, they reasoned, her intentions were sincere: She had given up work with the rock 'n' roll elite in order to live as a lesbian feminist.
Backlash grew when a Boston College Ph.D. student named Janice Raymond mailed Olivia Records a copy of her dissertation, which would later form the core of her 1979 book.
Raymond wasn't the only one stoking division within liberation movements of the day, and especially within the feminist community.
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