An Irrelevance of Talent

Bigots Don't Really Care about Literature

Let’s say in the first sentence that literature is indeed in peril; let’s clarify, however, that this has nothing to do with what authors “can” and “cannot” say about trans women—or about anyone else for that matter. That an author of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s status, to use a recent example, feels it necessary to disguise her incoherent transphobia as…