Look at the photo that accompanies my column. Do you notice anything special?
Who are these people whom British magazine Glamor UK calls “the women of 2025”? There are not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, not seven, not eight, but nine female-identifying biological men chosen by a women's magazine as female role models. Not a biological woman.
I am 100% for transgender rights. But in no case should this recognition come at the expense of women's rights.
Invisible women
I understand that we want to be inclusive, but not to the exclusion of women. I can't help but view this image as a blatant example of the erasure of women. The phenomenon that I described in my book Where are the women? published a year ago by Editions du Magazine.
Women have been fighting for decades for their place in the sun, for the fame they deserve. Their presence in the square was won at the cost of a fierce struggle. But in 2025, the women's magazine decided to honor biological males, writing: “The Glamor Women of the Year Awards celebrate the extraordinary women who have made their mark over the past 12 months (and beyond) – trailblazers, activists, visionaries and those who have shaken up the status quo and made the world a little better and brighter for women.”
Do you know what Simone de Beauvoir said in 1974? “All it takes is one crisis for women’s rights to go backwards.” She could never imagine that it would be women who would force them to retreat.
J. K. Rowling, author of Harry Potter, wrote about X: “I grew up in an era when mainstream women's magazines (mainstream) told girls that they should be slimmer and more beautiful.
Today those same magazines tell them that men are better than women.
I completely agree with her.
Tremblay, this is the occasion!
Continuing the theme of gender identity, Michel Tremblay gave an interview to TLMEP. Regarding “iel,” he said, “It’s a phenomenon that I don’t understand at all because of the French language.” “I understand whether we think or decide not to be a man or a woman, but the fact that we force the language to completely change, I think that’s very important.”
He added: “I would really like to read the text in heaven. How would they correspond to the past participles? Feminine or masculine? Take a whole page of Zola or Balzac and translate it for me in heaven.”
That Quebec's greatest playwright argues that Molière's (and Tremblay's) language cannot be completely transformed while respecting the rights of non-binary people seems to me to be common sense.
