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

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.