Australian Academic Says Women Are Afraid of Being Labelled Transphobic for Standing up for Themselves

Australian Academic Says Women Are Afraid of Being Labelled Transphobic for Standing up for Themselves
The Old Arts Building at the University of Melbourne on July 2008. Wikimedia Commons
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A Melbourne academic believes women are not standing up for their rights to have female-only spaces—like single-gender changing rooms—because they will be targeted as transphobic.

Alongside this, she believes that the increasing encroachment of gender-neutral language, such as “chest-feeding” and “gestational carrier,” is impacting the rights of women; who are allowing it for the sake of being “progressive,” without pausing to consider whether it is in the interests of women.

Victoria Kelly-Clark is an Australian based reporter who focuses on national politics and the geopolitical environment in the Asia-pacific region, the Middle East and Central Asia.
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