The interrogation of ‘what constitutes a woman’ serves as a definitional instrument to exclude trans women from the category of womanhood. This framework, characterized by systemic violence, disproportionately impacts women of color, economically disadvantaged women, and immigrant women, thereby enabling their control and subjugation.
The Trump administration is pushing policies that undermine women’s economic freedom and security, enforce archaic gender roles, and restrict access to reproductive healthcare, in an effort to pressure women into marrying men and raising children.
The system of patriarchy has historically erased women’s identities by taking their names, property, inheritance, and legal standing, and the only way to break free from this system is to create a new name that is not inherited from a man.
By Paulina Buelna SACRAMENTO, CA – The CA State Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on…