Trangender Women Are Transgender Women, I have No Apologies- Chimamanda Adichie

Celebrated and Award winning US based Nigerian writer and feminist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is unapologetic and unwilling to back away from her recent statement on transgender women which caused widespread outcry last week.

In an Channel 4 News, Ms Adichie said the experiences of transgender women differ from women who are born female. “My feeling is trans women are trans women”. Her comments drew immense widespread criticism, resulting in Adichie posting a clarification of her earlier remarks on Facebook.

According to her, her standpoint is very clear in terms of gender and feminism

From the very beginning, I think it’s been quite clear that there’s no way I could possibly say that trans women are not women. It’s the sort of thing to me that’s obvious, so I start from that obvious premise. Of course they are women but in talking about feminism and gender and all of that, it’s important for us to acknowledge the differences in experience of gender. That’s really what my point is. I didn’t apologize because I don’t think I have anything to apologize for. What’s interesting to me is this is in many ways about language and I think it also illustrates the less pleasant aspects of the American left that there sometimes is this is kind of language orthodoxy that you’re supposed to participate in, and when you don’t there’s kind of backlash that gets very personal and very hostile and very closed to debate

Sisi Mi

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