From there on, it turns into a criticism of France and their foreign policy.
The first half is regular interviews, which you should watch. It gets spicy at 6:18.
Edit: THIS IS AT THE FRENCH EMBASSY AND ONE CHAD ASKS HER ABOUT FRENCH FOREIGN POLICY AND CFA FRANC
oh she did it , the greatest crime , she made white people uncomfortable ...
tell the kids its banned, that'll make them want to read about it out of spite
tell the kids its banned, that’ll make them want to read about it out of spite
They're French, their conclusion by the end of it will be most likely be "it was fine, we did them a favor; the government was right to ban this woke brainwashing"
Wow, Americans shouldn't mock the French, they have so much in common!
She's a good writer, and smart as fuck - AFAIK she a TERF though, or at very least TERF-light.
Yeah I mean it's been a while since I have thought about this, but I reread the controversy and IDK she's not a JK Rowling or something. You can read for yourself I guess - she uses a justification that is also used by TERFs, but I do think is genuinely rooted in concern for the experiences of both cis- and trans-women (if maybe a little tone-deaf to the context in the UK). This one might just be a Rorschach test.
Yeah, the conversation is a complex one and entirely unsuited to clickbait journalism.
Trans women are women. They face unique challenges that other women don’t. Just like how white women and black women are both women, but still face unique challenges. Same with able-bodies and disabled women. Rich and working class women. Immigrant women. Lesbian and bisexual women. Etc etc etc.
Women is the broad term under which all these categories exist. Restricting women to mean only cis women is like very much like how early feminism restricted personhood to the civilised, white women, and considered other races as savages.
Yeah, the word nuance may have been hijacked by reactionaries who don't know the definition but that doesn't mean it isn't a good thing so long as we can have a conversation with empathy for one another
I wish people like this would get into the habit of just saying "trans women are women, they are women with a medical condition but they are women". There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the differences between cis women and trans women so long as you acknowledge the baseline -- they are women. The same goes for trans men and cis men, but they're consistently left out of discussion because this is and always has been about patriarchy. Trans men aren't as offensive because they're claiming patriarchal power whereas trans women are perceived as threatening to patriarchy as they're perceived as people giving up patriarchal power.
People like Rowling use that argument to imply that only wealthy white cis women matter, whereas acknowledgment of unique differences faced by different minority groups and the intersections of those different groups is a key part of intersectional approaches.
Being in Britain though and using an intersectional framing of trans women is a bit dangerous. The British people are a bit less civilized so they aren't able to understand that concept.
