12/31/2023 0 Comments Donovan richardsNoting Henderson-Rivers’ role in Richards’ campaign, Decaudin said that candidates for borough president should be mindful of the inclusive policies and practices that will be expected of them should they be elected. In an interview with Gay City News, Decaudin argued that Henderson-Rivers’ rhetoric falls into the same category as homophobia, sexism, xenophobia, and racism because although Henderson-Rivers said she does not hate, the language was voiced in a way that could be deemed dehumanizing and invalidating of peoples’ identities. In a Facebook post from October, Henderson-Rivers wrote, “Why is there something wrong with teaching little boys and little girls to be little boys and little girls?” That inflammatory rhetoric seen on Henderson-Rivers’ Facebook page also extended to gender expression. How is woman subset of something that came after? That makes ZERO sense when clearly ‘womxn’ was something created in the past couple of years and ‘woman’ has existed since the beginning of time.” That right there is misogyny and privilege. Henderson-Rivers proceeded to fire back to Decaudin in response, saying, “Emilia Decaudin you can’t possibly step in and tell ME about the struggles of being a woman. “Using the term womxn allows those non-binary people to be included in spaces that they ‘obviously’ deserve to be in without invalidating their gender or forcing them to identify as something they are not,” Decaudin wrote. As a black woman, who travels in older and more conservative circles, this is off putting.”Įmilia Decaudin, an out transgender member of the New York State Democratic committee and currently a candidate for both district leader and state committee in Queens’ 37th State Assembly District, opted to chime into that thread to explain the origin of the term “womxn.” It does the opposite and we feel excluded. “You can’t create a new term to be inclusive of others who don’t identify with that. “The X inclusion is actually an exclusion and I don’t understand why that is a hard concept for people to embrace,” Henderson-Rivers wrote. In fact, until folks stop trying to relabel and rebrand who we are, we will also continue to be divided.” She disputed the use of “womxn” - a term that is used to be inclusive of non-cinsgender women - when she wrote, “Again, I’m very clear on who I am and how I identify. Months later, in January, Henderson-Rivers again aggressively resisted respecting gender identities. No matter how hard you try, you can’t change it or duplicate it, you can only imitate it.” In yet another example of Henderson-Rivers dismissing the identities of trans women, she wrote that part of the magic of a woman “is not only in our heads and our hearts but in between our legs… The gift was given to us. In that comment, the wording of “have had” appears to falsely imply that as long as someone has a vagina, that person cannot be a transgender men or a non-binary person. Henderson-Rivers continued, “If you have or have had female reproductive organs you are a woman.” It should be noted, contrary to Henderson-Rivers’ comments, that there are indeed non-binary individuals and transgender men who are able to get pregnant. She also wrote, “And trans men can’t impregnate a woman so they are not men.” ![]() “I’m not going to call a cat a dog and a dog a cat even if the cat barks and the dog meows.” ![]() Why? Because ONLY women can get pregnant,” she wrote. In a series of Facebook posts and comments in October, Henderson-Rivers appeared to reject transgender individuals as she veered off into tangents comparing different animal species to explain why she won’t respect trans individuals’ identities.
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