Transsexual women need some level of acknowledgement from us if we are not to be ridiculed as extremists. People like India are not a threat.
In 2017 on Woman's Hour India Willoughby said that women with hairy legs were 'dirty'
I was a shocked as Jenni Murray to hear this once I had re-listened to check that I wasn't experiencing auditory hallucinations.
Dame Jenni Murray was so insensed she wrote an article. This led to TRAs protest & then public censure by the BBC.
Since then TRAs have no platformed and protested DameJenni Murray.
She noticeably does not do any of the interviews on R4 Womans Hour concerning sex/gender.
May 2017 The article:
"Jenni Murray: Be trans, be proud — but don’t call yourself a “real woman”
Can someone who has lived as a man, with all the privilege that entails, really lay claim to womanhood? It takes more than a sex change and make-up
(extract)
"The fury that a male-to-female transsexual could be so ignorant of the politics that have preoccupied women for centuries hit me again last year — 16 years after I had met Carol. This time I was speaking to another trans woman, India Willoughby, who had hit the headlines after appearing on the ITV programme Loose Women.
India held firmly to her belief that she was a “real woman”, ignoring the fact that she had spent all of her life before her transition enjoying the privileged position in our society generally accorded to a man. In a discussion about the Dorchester hotel’s demands that its female staff should always wear make-up, have a manicure and wear stockings over shaved legs, she was perfectly happy to go along with such requirements. There wasn’t a hint of understanding that she was simply playing into the stereotype — a man’s idea of what a woman should be.
She described hairy legs on a woman as “dirty”. But hairy legs are not considered dirty in a man. Did she not know that the question of whether a woman should shave her legs or her armpits had been a topic of debate among women for an awfully long time? And that to describe a woman who chose not to shave as dirty was insulting and again suggested an ignorance of sexual politics?
Unsurprisingly, my polite and informed line of questioning exposed me to a barrage of criticism on social media. I was a Terf and didn’t understand what Simone de Beauvoir, the author of one of the great feminist tracts, The Second Sex, meant when she wrote: “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
As a matter of fact, I have understood perfectly what de Beauvoir meant ever since I read her as a teenage girl. Her subject was that “second sex”. She used the word sex advisedly." (continues)
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/be-trans-be-proud-but-dont-call-yourself-a-real-woman-frtld7q5c
relevent thread, Mon 27-May-19 OP aprilviolets wrote
"a bunch of nasty women with short hair"
is how India Willoughby describes the people she thinks have influenced the Scout's very sensible decision.
Is it a compulsory feature of womanhood, appropriated or not, to have long hair??!"
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/a3596573-a-bunch-of-nasty-women-with-short-hair