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A statement regarding eligibility for the Women's Prize for Fiction

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HecatesCat · 05/10/2020 13:05

Well it's 'In our terms and conditions the word 'woman' equates to a cis woman, transgender woman or anyone who is legally defined as a woman or of the female sex'

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FairFriday · 05/10/2020 13:15

DS is very talented in creating writing.

Technically he could enter, no?

ThinEndOfTheWedge · 05/10/2020 13:15

The Trustees of the Women's Prize Trust would like to reassert that we are firmly opposed to any form of discrimination or prejudice on the basis of race, sexuality or gender identity.

Including transmen and not transwomen will be entirely consistent with this and I would applaud it.

Excluding TM is based on gender identity, excluding TW is based on sex.

But I doubt that’s what they mean...

It’s a woman’s prize - by definition - they are supposed to discriminate based on sex.

Helmetbymidnight · 05/10/2020 13:14

How dare they call women 'cis' - this is really unbelievable.

Helmetbymidnight · 05/10/2020 13:11

It IS clear - The womans prize has decided to abandon its founding principles in order to centre men and to bow down to misogynistic gender ideology.

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HecatesCat · 05/10/2020 13:10

'The Trustees of the Women's Prize Trust would like to reassert that we are firmly opposed to any form of discrimination or prejudice on the basis of race, sexuality or gender identity.'

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Helmetbymidnight · 05/10/2020 13:09

I just saw this. I'm outraged. What idiots.

Xenia · 05/10/2020 13:09

That is not particularly clear.Eg in English law you change your gender through a legal process, have the surgery and only after that are you the other gender. So the definition above needs to define "transgender woman" I think we know legally defined as (see my previous sentence) and we know the female sex (i.e. xx chr.)

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