caitlyn Jenner and other Transgender Women Are Not ‘Real Women’ by Germaine Greer
The popular feminist, Germaine Greer, the second-wave feminist best known for her 1970 book The Female Eunuch, accused Caitlyn Jenner of “stealing the limelight” from the other women of the Kardashian clan in an appearance on BBC2’s Newsnight. In the course of the interview, Greer said that “misogyny played a big part” in Glamour magazine’s decision to award Jenner their woman of the year award. She also defended previous statements in which she claimed that trans women were not “real women.” Via The Guardian: “She also refused to back down from her position that transgender women, who have begun life as men before undergoing surgery and hormone treatment to become women, are ‘not women,’ saying they do not ‘look like, sound like or behave like women’.” Greer’s statements prompted a petition circulated by Cardiff University students. The petition, aimed at having Greer barred from giving a speech on campus, was started by Rachael Melhuish, women’s officer at the Cardiff University