[1] The Transexual Menace organized groups of demonstrators outside courthouses during trials involving anti-transgender crimes, for instance in the rape and murder of Brandon Teena.
The movement became the subject of iconic gay liberation filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim's documentary "Transexual Menace".
[5] The Menace members were angry and the group immediately picketed Esquire's offices; eventually the writer of the story came down to apologise.
In her book TRANS/gressive, Riki Wilchins describes the incident as reflective of the climate at the time, with "friendly fire" coming from people or institutions that were not even actively hostile.
Wilchins describes how trans women, unlike the other participants, had to "jump through a series of demeaning hoops" including providing medical records, a hormone test and a full gender verification regime.