Raquel Willis Speaks at the Women's Convention
Raquel Willis, a national organizer with the Transgender Law Center, is exhausted. Physically exhausted from traveling from her home in Oakland, California, to the Women's Convention in Detroit, Michigan, and generally exhausted by the idea that anyone would expect something other than discriminatory policies from the Trump administration – like the recent memo from the Department of Justice that rolled back an Obama-era protection against discrimination based on gender identity.
Ahead of a panel at the convention, Willis spoke with Cosmopolitan.com about creating a more inclusive women's movement, the conversation around #MeToo, and how we can change the system in a way the Trump administration never will.
For people who can't be there, what is it you're discussing on your panel?
How the movement can be more inclusive of trans women. But I actually am a little aggravated with that conversation because I think there's still this idea that trans women are other from women's rights and women's issues. And I think that one of the first steps with really having this conversation is cis women, cis feminists, cis woman organizers and activists grappling with the longstanding historical damage that they have done to the trans rights movement, and the harm that they have caused trans women in particular for decades.
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