A man has been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. pic.twitter.com/8bRfGWvWru
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From the article:
Stone, credited with starting the academic field of transgender studies, is also a recording engineer, an artist, and the first known trans woman in the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Around the end of this year, her story will be told in a documentary film.
Stone was inducted into the hall last year along with several other prominent women, such as civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, tennis champion Serena Williams, and scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw.
Earlier inductees, among more than 300 in the hall, include Susan B. Anthony, Jane Addams, Maya Angelou, Hillary Clinton, Angela Davis, Emily Dickinson, Amelia Earhart, Jane Fonda, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Billie Jean King, Wilma Mankiller, Michelle Obama, Rosa Parks, Nancy Pelosi, Sally Ride, and Eleanor Roosevelt. The hall, founded in 1973, is located in Seneca Falls, New York, noted as the birthplace of the American women’s rights movement, having hosted the nation’s first Women’s Rights Convention in 1848.
And now, finally, a man! Well isn't that just wonderful.
“It’s a great honor and a great responsibility,” Stone says of her induction. “Somebody has to go first.”
“Obviously this was an incredibly historic induction,” says Jennifer Gabriel, CEO of the hall. “We were delighted to be able to celebrate her. She does a good job of highlighting the trans community and experiences we all share as women.”
Except – you know – he's not a woman. From his Wiki page we learn that he "underwent gender reassignment" in 1974, in his late thirties. So no, his experience is not one "we all share as women".
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