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Feminist Academics Championing Trans Rights:“for feminism to really deliver equality & emancipation,it must also focus on problems women face as a result of oppression on the basis of factors other than their sex: race,class,sexuality,disability, & gender” buzzfeed.com/patrickstrudwi…
“Any feminist worth his or her salt should be advocating for the most marginalised,” said Akwugo Emejulu, professor of sociology...whose research examines both gender & race inequality. “What we know is that trans women in particular face particular kinds of marginalisation.”
BuzzFeed News asked, why do you, as a feminist academic, support trans rights?
“Because trans people are people,” Alison Phipps, a professor of gender studies. “Trans people have the right to define their own identities and live as the person that they are.”
“Because trans people are people,” Alison Phipps, a professor of gender studies. “Trans people have the right to define their own identities and live as the person that they are.”
“what trans people say about themselves, their lives, experiences, and identity, should be taken seriously... To fail to do this is, for Emejulu, to suggest trans people “have an inability to think for themselves” and therefore are “not truly human”.”
“I think about things in interlinking ways” Vanita Sundaram said,referring to how sexism is compounded by racism,homophobia & transphobia. “So it has to be a feminism that challenges patriarchy &other systems of hierarchy that r used to oppress, gender identity being one of them”
