Amen!

'the regime of sex, gender and sexual difference you consider universal and almost metaphysical, on which rests all psychoanalytical theory, is not an empirical reality, nor a determining symbolic order of the unconscious. It is no more than an epistemology of the living, an anatomical mapping, a political economy of the body and a collective administration of reproductive energies.'

Fragment uit Can the Monster Speak? By Preciado, Paul B.
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Paul Preciado, trans philosopher and author from Spain, in his talk to the psychoanalyst congress at the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne in Paris, “Can the Monster Speak?”

‘All the things that are terrible and terrifying about transsexuality and gender transitioning are not found in the process of transition itself, but in the way in which the boundaries between the sexes punish and threaten to kill anyone who dares cross them. It is not gender transitioning that is horrifying and dangerous, but the regime of sexual difference.’

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