馃УJudith Butler (continued 2 of x, so forgive me but ... 馃挏)
"The very fear of being deprived of something so intimate and defining as a sexed identity depends on a general understanding that this would be, in fact, a deprivation; it would be wrong, in other words, to deprive someone of the sexed aspect of their very being."
"From this premise it should be possible to universalize the claim, to refuse to engage in any activity that would deprive anyone of their sexed identity, including trans people, but the opposite has proven to be true when asserting the right to one鈥檚 own sex requires that others lose theirs."
"For in the end, defeating this phantasm is a matter of affirming how one loves, how one lives in one鈥檚 body, the right to exist in the world without fear of violence or discrimination, to breathe, to move, to live. Why wouldn鈥檛 we want all people to have those fundamental freedoms?"
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