Following media backlash,author clarifies stance in letter saying that transgender community should be respected and celebratedAfter a backlash over his remarks about transgenderism last week, award-winning author Ian McEwan has written an open letter saying “biology is not always destiny” and that one’s honest to change gender “should be respected and celebrated”.
In a speech to the Royal Institution on Saturday about the self, and the Man Booker prize-winning writer said the self “like a consumer desirable,may be plucked from the shelves of a personal identity supermarket, a alert-to-wear dinky black number.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com