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Why the Feminist Movement Must Be Trans-Inclusive - Everyday Feminism

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We're asking you to join our membership program so we can become fully financially sustainable (and you'll get cool perks too!) and avoid shutting down. Every year, we reach over 6.5 million people around the world with our intersectional feminist articles and webinars. But we now depend 100% on reader support to keep going. If everyone reading this only gave $12, we could raise enough money for the entire year in just one day. For the price of a single lunch out, you can help save us. We're an independent feminist media site led entirely by people of color. If Everyday Feminism has been useful to you, please take one minute to keep us alive. Thank you! Source: Tumblr (Content warning: transmisogynistic slurs) Despite what we like to think, feminism is not always the inclusive space that we want it to be. It can actually be an unsafe place for those seen as outsiders. While transgender people deserve a central role in the feminist movement, they have been viewed by a small (but vocal!)

(Content warning: transmisogynistic slurs) Despite what we like to think, feminism is not always the inclusive space that we want it to be. It can actually be an unsafe place for those seen as outsiders. While transgender people deserve a central role in the feminist movement, they have been viewed by a small (but vocal!) minority as antithetical to the movement’s goals, purposefully excluding – historically and currently – trans struggles from feminism. Throughout the second wave in the 1970s and continuing today, trans and gender non-conforming people have experienced exclusion, hate…

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