Germaine Greer

—Said transgender women are “not women.”

—Appeared to back away from previous transphobic comments, but then reasserted them, saying it “wasn’t fair” that “a man who has lived for 40 years as a man and had children with a woman and enjoyed the services—the unpaid services of a wife, which most women will never know… then decides that the whole time he’s been a woman.”

—Denied that transphobia exists.

—Suggested that Olympic gold medalist and runner Caster Semenya may not be female and shoudn’t be able to self-identify when competing in sex-separated sports, saying: “Being without a penis doesn’t make you a woman any more than being without a womb makes you a man.”

—In her 1999 book, The Whole Woman, wrote that “when a man decides to spend his life impersonating his mother (like Norman Bates in Psycho), it is as if he murders her and gets away with it.”

—Reiterated her transphobia after Caitlyn Jenner was announced as one of Glamour magazine’s Women of the Year, telling the BBC, “I think misogyny plays a really big part in all of this, that a man who goes to these lengths to become a woman will be a better woman than someone who is just born a woman.” 

—Responded to the comments made to BBC (above) with an expeletive-laden statement: “Just because you lop off your dick and then wear a dress doesn’t make you a fucking woman. I’ve asked my doctor to give me long ears and liver spots and I’m going to wear a brown coat but that won’t turn me into a fucking cocker spaniel.… I do understand that some people are born intersex and they deserve support in coming to terms with their gender, but it’s not the same thing. A man who gets his dick chopped off is actually inflicting an extraordinary act of violence on himself.”

—Suggested in a Guardian article that trans women who “think” they are women is a “delusion.”