Transgender Rights Are A Feminist Issue
by Jessica Pieklo
May 17, 2012
http://www.care2.com/causes/transgender-rights-are-a-feminist-issue.htmlA consistent, and exceedingly fair critique of the feminist movement is that it is grounded in a certain white, liberal privilege that offers very little social and cultural change for populations that need it most. And maybe nowhere is that critique most on-point than the issue of transgender rights.
Make no mistake about it. Transgender rights are feminist rights and transgender issues are feminist issues.
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At the heart of these cases is the idea that forcing someone to conform to a privileged or preferred gender performance is discriminatory even if those decisions did not stem first from complaints by transgender employees but rather by professional, heterosexual women. The discrimination faced by those women is inextricably linked to the gender discrimination that other people face, including and especially transgender people.
