Romi Chandra: An open letter to the Vancouver's Women's Health Collective

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Romi Chandra: An open letter to the Vancouver's Women's Health Collective
Straight.com
By Romi Chandra
July 16, 2009


http://www.straight.com/article-241214/romi-chandra-open-letter-vancouvers-womens-health-collective


I write this from a place of attempting to understand my place in speaking about communities to which I do not belong. I am attempting to ask difficult questions but also learn.

I am very saddened to learn that VWHC and its partners have chosen to serve the public through the pharmacy by using a very narrow and limiting definition of woman (women-born-women). As explained on VWHC's Web site, the purpose of the committee's being is "health for all women in an equitable society". But by proclaiming who is a woman and who isn't, is that truly supporting the health of ALL women in an equitable society?