The instant that lesbians decided to make common public cause with gay men, they had in effect decided to prioritize opposition to heterosexual normativity over biological sex. The addition of the trans community to the cause is simply an extension of the principle then established, that marginalization by the heterosexual hegemony was the only thing that really mattered when it came to public campaigning. The price paid by orthodox feminism, however, has been costly, and the status of transgender people is today a matter of acrimonious dispute among those who have campaigned for women’s
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