User:Eveattewell/Feminist views on transgender topics

France

In February 2020, an open letter was published in the Huffington Post signed by around 50 French feminists, including sociologist Christine Delphy and ex-Femen activist Marguerite Stern, questioning the presence of trans women in feminist movements. The Huffington Post later removed the letter from their website. In response to the letter, several different feminist organizations, such as the Syndicat du travail sexuel, the Collectif NousToutes, and the Collages féminicides Paris, who Stern had previously been involved with, issued statements condemning transphobia.

In late-February 2020, a further group of feminists and feminist organizations released an open letter stating that they opposed the importing of "transphobic debates" into France and that creating divisions between cis and trans women "only serve the patriarchy."

According to the Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory, the conversation around ambiguous and non-conforming genders grew larger in early modern France. The French language may have something to do with this discourse. All French nouns have a gender, and unlike Latin from which French evolved from, the French language does not offer a gender neutral term. Some early modern texts believe that this insistence on two genders only plays a role in France's hesitance to accept ambiguous or non-conforming genders.