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Novelist and feminist Chimamanda Adichie has stirred a debate by saying it is difficult to equate trans-gender females to real women.
The writer shared her view on the issue in an interview with Cathy Newmand on Channel 4 News, which was aired on Friday.
Asked during the interview whether it matters how you arrived at being a woman and whether trans-women can be considered real women, she explained it wasn’t difficult to accept that trans-gender females can be equated to real women.
She said, “When people talk about trans-women, my feeling is that trans-women are trans-women. I think that if you entered the world as a man with the privileges that the world accord to men, and then sort of switch gender, it is difficult for me to accept that we can equate your experience with the experience of a woman who has lived from the beginning in the world as a woman and who has not been accorded those privileges.
“I don’t think it is a good thing to conflate everything into one; I don’t think it is a good thing to talk about women’s issues being exactly as the issues of trans-women.”
Yikes. Here’s Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s entire “trans women are trans women” clip. (via Channel 4: https://t.co/iiTEQITLVw) @ztsamudzi pic.twitter.com/T6aU9D4xDz
— Wilfred Chan (@wilfredchan) March 10, 2017
Her views have sparked a debate with many criticising her for it and others expressing support for her.
Chimamanda didn’t say anything wrong. Trans women don’t share identical experiences with women. No debating that
— You GO Girl (@PrettyAssNee) March 10, 2017
I don’t see what’s wrong with what Chimamanda said. She didn’t say that trans-women are men, just that they aren’t the same as cis-women.
— Touki Touki (@Efemena___) March 10, 2017
Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Under Fire For Comments About Trans Women https://t.co/8nNOselBix
— Lawrence D. Elliott (@lawrence_author) March 11, 2017
I keep seeing cis women claim that what Chimamanda said about trans women wasn’t transphobic and I’m just like… Cis… who asked you?
— fat and boujee (@delafro_) March 11, 2017
Source: Punch News
