“For…many women, …one of the difficult parts of witnessing and wanting to rally behind the movement for transgender rights is…”

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For me and many women, feminist and otherwise, one of the difficult parts of witnessing and wanting to rally behind the movement for transgender rights is the language that a growing number of trans individuals insist on, the notions of femininity that they’re articulating, and their disregard for the fact that being a woman means having accrued certain experiences, endured certain indignities and relished certain courtesies in a culture that reacted to you as one.

Elinor Burkett, “What Makes a Woman?”, The New York Times (7 June 2015), SR6.

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