Derrick Jensen is not a “transphobe” and is not a “bigoted hateful Nazi” (“Controversial Speaker Sparks Outcry,” 3/8),

I deeply encourage readers to look further into the facts of this current controversy involving Derrick Jensen and Deep Green Resistance.

Essentially this controversy arose from a situation in which Jensen was in support of a women’s only community, comprised of rape trauma victims autonomously deciding that for their own personal safety and well being, for their own ability to heal, from horrific unspeakable acts perpetrated upon them, to have a space free from males.

I believe that to put upon these victims’ expectations to be fully inclusive and transcend cultural societal norms that not even CEOs, congressmen, senators or current presidents are able to, is disgusting and profoundly unreasonable.

Matthew Hibdon

Eugene