Popular Nigerian writer, Akwaeke Emezi has come out to blast Chimamanda Adichie, JK Rowling, and their supporters. Emezi recently jumped on social media to accuse Adichie and Rowling of supporting the killing of transgender children, and Nigerians have been reacting.
According to the writer, after experiencing what it is like to grow up as a transgender in Nigeria, she cannot agree with Chimamanda Adichie and JK Rowling’s views about transgenders.
She added that it is difficult for her to accept that then we can equate one experience with another experience of a woman who has lived from the beginning as a woman and who has not been accorded those privileges that men are.
Her words, “I think the whole problem of gender in the world is about our experiences. It’s not about how we wear our hair or whether we have a vagina or a penis. It’s about the way the world treats us, and I think if you’ve lived in the world as a man with the privileges that the world accords to men and then sort of change gender, it’s difficult for me to accept that then we can equate your experience with the experience of a woman who has lived from the beginning as a woman and who has not been accorded those privileges that men are.”
WOW.
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