![]() ![]() Gay’s works include The New York Times best-selling essay anthology Bad Feminist (2014) and the memoir Hunger (2017). “I think a lot of feminists are very comfortable being anti-trans and that’s painful to see because we should know better.” The 44-year-old author, whose work often deals with her personal experience as a rape survivor, continued: “I think a lot of feminists are very comfortable being anti-trans and that’s painful to see because we should know better, having been marginalised as women throughout history and today. “When I see how trans people are treated and the agony that a lot of trans people deal with-the suicide rates, the murder rates of black trans women-I just think, ‘Do you really think that’s a choice?’” ![]() “The world is transphobic and I think it’s appalling, because trans women are women,” she said. The author speaks with Jessica Gross about her favorite definition of feminism, ‘‘Sweet Valley High’’ and the fetishization of bad writing. Speaking to the New Statesmen, Gay explained that trans-exclusionary radical feminists ( TERFs) have “woefully” let down transgender people. ![]()
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