I’m not going to use the hashtag because I don’t want to promote it, but, no, Biden didn’t “erase women.”

Transgender women ARE women, and they are deserving of protections.

I stand with all my sisters.
I once had the honor of attending “The Vagina Monologues” performed solely by transwomen.

(Eve Ensler and Jane Fonda were there.)

If you’re a cis woman and don’t understand the courage it takes to relinquish male privilege, I’m not sure how you can consider yourself a feminist.
As a cis woman w second-wave feminist in origins, I understand feeling frustration that misogyny and sexism haven’t yet been adequately addressed.

But I don’t understand the reactionary impulse to blame transwomen for that fact.

The same oppressive hierarchies affect ALL of us.
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