Gabrielle Bouchard
MONTREAL, Quebec, January 17, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A month after Quebec’s largest women’s rights group elected a biological male who identifies as a “woman” as president, a feminist backlash is brewing – or as much as it can brew in a province notable for its social liberalism.
Critics say “Gabrielle” Bouchard, a 49-year-old “trans woman” and gender activist, can’t speak for women because he was born a man, the National Post reported last week.
The 49-year-old Bouchard, for his part, began his presidency of Fédération des femmes du Québec in December by calling for women’s equality. The Fédération is Quebec’s largest women’s group, representing some 300 feminist groups and about 700 individual members.
Bouchard told National Post that he’s in a unique position, having lived as a privileged male above the so-called glass ceiling, then becoming one of the oppressed group “below that ceiling after transition.”
“In a way, I think that I have an advantage because I’ve seen both sides. I’ve experienced marginalization, even though people say I didn’t,” he said.
But the critics of Bouchard’s presidency aren’t buying it.
The most notable of these are Denise Bombardier, a writer, longtime Radio Canada
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