In an interview with UK’s Channel 4 to promote her new book,
‘Dear Ijeawele Or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, famed Nigerian
author Chimamanda Adichie shared her thoughts on Trans-woman, saying
trans-women are trans-women, and it’s not fair that people who had previously
enjoyed the privileges that comes with living as a man now what to compare
their experiences with people have lived all their lives as women
“I think the whole problem of gender in the world is about
our experiences. It’s not about how we wear our hair or whether we have a
vagina or a penis. It’s about the way the world treats us. And I think if
you’ve lived in the world as a man with the privileges that the world accords
to men and then sort of change gender, it’s difficult for me to accept that
then we can equate your experience with the experience of a woman who has lived
from the beginning as a woman” – Watch the video and people’s reactions after
the cut…
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