User:JennyJimenez15/Feminist views on transgender topics

Not every early radical feminist opposed trans acceptance. Andrea Dworkin, for example, viewed gender reassignment surgery as a right for transgender people. She also wrote a letter to Raymond critical of The Transsexual Empire, which commented that of the transgender people she met in Europe (who she called a "small, vigorously persecuted minority"), she "perceived their suffering as authentic", and related their experiences to Jewish and female experiences. Dworkin said that it was a myth "that there are two polar distinct sexes". The notion that human sex is not a naturally discrete binary, and that this conception is the result of gendered cultural and political processes, was later taken up and developed by authors like Anne Fausto-Sterling and Judith Butler.Concerning the oversight of the existence of these trans-inclusive radical feminist views, as well as of the role of trans women in the feminist struggle, historian Susan Stryker remarked that "transsexual women were active in the radical feminist movement of the late 1960s, but were almost entirely erased from its history after 1973." Transgender men and women have always participated in feminist movements. Finne Enke states that transgender people in the 1970’s were “movers and shakers of-indeed integral to- even the most iconic feminists of the 1970’s.”  Despite this many conservative women argued in the participation of transgender people as they believe men and women were made to serve gender roles that were taught to them by the Christianity.