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Margaret Atwood is probably the most prominent example of a feminist who hasn't been willing to defend biological sex. That's quite significant, because in Canada, sex as well as gender are protected in law in the Canadian Charter of Rights. Yet many women's rights are under attack in Canada. Atwood has explicitly said in an interview with Hadley Freeman that she thinks sex is on a distribution. I love several of Atwood's books, especially "The Edible Woman". Yet, she refuses to dig into the literature and science that shows that biological sex is not on a distribution.

On top of this, Canada has had, and continues to have a dialog about violence against women:

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2023/06/12/incels-murder-designation-as-terrorism-more-proof-its-a-grim-time-for-womens-rights.html

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/the-sunday-edition-for-december-1-2019-1.5377096/30-years-since-the-montreal-massacre-we-still-see-a-deadly-hatred-of-women-1.5377220

How can we even have a dialog about violence against women if we can't even talk coherently about who women are?

Many people outside Canada think that Canada's most prominent feminist is Margaret Atwood. I would say no. The "sex is on a distribution" position is convenient for her to take. She's got two million followers on twitter.

Francine Pelletier: 4,300 twitter followers

Canadian Femicide Observatory: 8,800 followers

Amy Eileen Hamm: 33,000 twitter followers

Meghan Murphy: 83,000 twitter followers

Atwood continues to be a darling of the Guardian and the New York Times. Many women continue to read her as a beacon of feminism.

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