Transgender model Munroe Bergdorf: I don’t feel safe because of other women

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Transgender model Munroe Bergdorf has said &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;other women” are making her feel unsafe&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Bergdorf accused women of creating a hostile environment for transgender people and characterising them as a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;threat”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The mixed-race former L’Oreal model&comma; who lost her job following allegations of anti-white racism&comma; said she is worried about the impact of women on transgender people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Bergdorf spoke at a Women Of The World &lpar;WOW&rpar; feminist event in London&comma; which she said she &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;dreaded” attending due to the perceived threat from &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;cisgender” females&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At the event&comma; WOW founder Jude Kelly said that Bergdorf&comma; who was dropped from L’Oreal in 2017 after comments emerged of her claiming all white people inherited racism&comma; was the recent recipient of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;word hatred” in the media&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Bergdorf claimed that despite her privilege&comma; she feels under threat&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;127622" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-127622" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;03&sol;D2CE2C9B-B31B-4B14-9180-9DEB0CD78B45&period;jpeg"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-127622" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;03&sol;D2CE2C9B-B31B-4B14-9180-9DEB0CD78B45&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"899" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-127622" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Munroe Bergdorf<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>She said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I don’t feel safe because of other women&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;That’s really weighing heavily on me&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I want to get people to think about how this narrative is affecting the transgender members of our society&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I need to speak about the fact that I’m a very privileged trans woman&comma; as I have a job which puts me in a lot of privileged spaces basically&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If I feel this way&comma; what does my sister feel like&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Unfortunately it’s got to do with a narrative – the trans people are a threat to cisgender women&period; There no statistics to show that this is the case&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Bergdorf added that the threatening atmosphere came from women &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;writing articles which are having a really negative impact on trans women”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The model said that society is in a state of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;flux”&comma; 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