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What Makes a ‘Real’ Woman? Welcome to the New Liberal Transphobia

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Author and feminist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie doesn’t believe trans women are women because they once had the ‘privilege’ of being men. And she’s not alone.

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Samantha Allen
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