Texas activist who clashed with 'unhinged' trans protesters says women must be brave: 'Time to stand up'

Michelle Evans, Round Rock Texas chapter leader for Independent Women’s Network, talks about why it's important for women to stand up to transgender ideology, despite threats.

Conservative women's rights advocate Michelle Evans said she and her allies won't be stopped or silenced in their fight to defend women, even when being screamed at by "unhinged" transgender activists.

The Round Rock Texas chapter leader for Independent Women’s Network was one of several speakers shouted down by transgender activists at a pro-women rally at the Texas Capitol.

Evans said it was the first time she'd seen counter-protesters show up armed with "AR-15s."

"You know, it's an open carry state. And I respect everybody's right to keep and bear arms. We had security and protection that were armed as well. But it does show a sort of ramp-up on their end," she told Fox News Digital.

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Pro-transgender activists clash at pro-women rally in Texas. (Fox News Digital)

The activists used microphones to effectively drown out the voices of speakers at the event and shouted obscenities at the rallygoers, which included women who had detransitioned.

"We had very loud, very energetic and very seemingly unhinged counter-protesters," Evans said. Her encounter with a left-wing activist who accused her of "misgendering" went viral last week on social media.

"I'm a man, b–h," the activist said.

"By all appearances and any bit of common sense would tell you that she is not [a man]," Evans recalled.

Evans described seeing the same left-wing activists "over and over" again at the "Let Women Speak" events, saying the opposition was mostly women in their teens and 20s, as well as