Germaine Greer: ‘It’s not fair’ for trans women to marry other women
Feminist author Germaine Greer has claimed that it is āunfairā for trans women to be married to other women.
The noted feminist author has come under scrutiny a number of times for her extreme views about trans people, famously claiming: āJust because you lop off your d**k and then wear a dress doesnāt make you a f***ing woman.
Speaking on Australian debate show Q&A, Greer spoke about trans issues again ā and made another surprising claim.
She said: āI donāt believe a man who has lived for 40 years as a man and had children with a woman and enjoyed the unpaid services of a wife, which most women will never knowā¦ but he then decides that the whole time heās been a woman?
āAt that point Iād like to say, well hang on a minute, you believed you were a woman but you married another women. That wasnāt fair, was it?ā
Germaine Greer: Why do you believe there is such a thing as a āreal womanā? #QandA https://t.co/fBsHKm5NM5
ā ABC Q&A (@QandA) April 11, 2016
Greerās comments are surprising given she supports equality for lesbians ā insisting āthe problem with gay marriage is not the gay bit but the marriage bit.ā She has previously opposed male same-sex parenting on the grounds of āmotherhoodā.
She continued: āIf youāre a 50-year-old truck driver whoās had four children with a wife and youāve decided the whole time youāve been a woman, I think youāre probably wrong.ā
The feminist did concede some ground on the issue, though.
She said: āWhen I first was thinking about what is a woman, I fell for the usual view that women were people with two Xs and men were people with an X and a Y, which made life nice and easy for me. I now realise that this was wrong.ā
āThere are all kinds of intersexual conditions and thereās all kinds of ways that genes are expressed in behaviour and development.ā
But she said: āIf you decide 0 because youāre uncomfortable in the masculine system which turns boys into men, often at great cost to themselves ā if youāre unhappy with that, it doesnāt mean that you belong at the other end of the spectrum.
āYou canāt know that because you donāt know what the other sex is!
āWomen are constantly being told that they are not satisfactory as women, that women make better women than they do.
āThe Woman of the Year may be Caitlyn Jenner, which makes the rest of the world feel slightly wry.ā
