Germaine Greer Defends Transgender Views, Triggers Another Controversy
Greer was asked about her views on trans people, at first apologising but then saying it "wasn't fair" for them to decide their gender.
Germaine Greer has apologised for her recent statements on transgender people, acknowledging that her views were “wrong” – before going on to spark another furore by re-stating those previous views.
The groundbreaking feminist thinker Greer, 77, was responding to a question-and-answer session on an ABC television panel show on Monday night (April 11th). A journalist named Steph D’Souza had introduced herself as a former fan and asked her: “Why do you believe there is such a thing as a real woman?”
“This is so difficult,” Greer began her answer, referring back to her comments in 2015 about transgender women ‘not being real women’ that had caused a petition by Cardiff University students to prevent her from speaking there.
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