QUOTE OF THE DAY: Use Gender-Neutral Pronouns or You’re a ‘Fascist’

Judith Butler, a prominent feminist intellectual, has denounced critics of transgender ideology as dangerously “reactionary.”

THE QUOTE

“Anti-gender movements are not just reactionary but fascist trends, the kind that support increasingly authoritarian governments,” she wrote in an essay published Saturday by The Guardian.

I love Butler’s summary of the work of gender studies: “[they ask] what difference it makes to the social organization of our world to disconnect the sex assigned at birth from the life that follows, including matters of work and love.” https://t.co/zAXckSzag5

— U.N.D.E.A.D. Anderson (@diannaeanderson) October 23, 2021

Taking aim at trans-exclusionary radical feminists, or TERFs, Butler said, “It makes no sense for ‘gender critical’ feminists to ally with reactionary powers in targeting trans, non-binary, and genderqueer people.”

• In recent years, a faction of feminists have resisted the inclusion of transgender women among their ranks, and earned the ire of progressives and the mainstream LGBT community in doing so.
• “Let’s all get truly critical now, for this is no time for any of the targets of this movement to be turning against one another. The time for anti-fascist solidarity is now.”