Feminist: Transgender Push ‘Is Harmful To Women’
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Peter Hasson
Reporter, Associate Editor
8:36 PM 06/23/2016
In an article published Wednesday afternoon, prominent feminist Kathleen Sloan argued that the transgender movement is harmful to women, threatens their safety and erases the historical oppression they have suffered at the hands of men.
Sloan, a former board member of the pro-choice National Organization for Women (NOW), wrote an article for Deleware news site The News Journal arguing a bill under consideration by the state sSnate that would add an “equal protection” amendment to the state Constitution that would designate “gender identity” as a constitutionally protected class.
“To women’s rights advocates and feminist leaders like me, laws that include gender identity raise a number of red flags for their unintended consequences for women,” Sloan wrote. “The politics of the gender identity movement that is sweeping the country is bringing with it a multitude of problems for women and girls. One of the issues is the loss of safe sex-segregated spaces such as public bathrooms, changing rooms and even domestic violence shelters,” she went on to say.
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