Judith Butler artfully dismantles trans-exclusionary feminism and JK Rowling. Hang this in the Louvre immediately ●YES! YOU TELL THEM!!! 👏👏👏👏👏
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“In an interview with the New Statesman, Butler – a leading feminist and intellectual whose work on gender, sexuality and philosophy spans several decades – makes it crystal clear that she is absolutely, 100 per cent not here for the kind of feminists that exclude trans women.
Despite the interviewer’s best efforts to paint trans-exclusionary feminists – sometimes called “gender critical” feminists – as mainstream and popular, Butler is very clear that this is a “fringe movement”.
“I want to first question whether trans-exclusionary feminists are really the same as mainstream feminists,” Judith Butler begins by saying. “If you are right to identify the one with the other, then a feminist position opposing transphobia is a marginal position. I think this may be wrong. My wager is that most feminists support trans rights and oppose all forms of transphobia.
Referencing JK Rowling, the interviewer cites the view that allowing trans people to self-declare their legal gender will mean “putting women at risk of violence”.
“If we look closely at the example that you characterise as ‘mainstream’ we can see that a domain of fantasy is at work, one which reflects more about the feminist who has such a fear than any actually existing situation in trans life,” Butler says.
“The feminist who holds such a view presumes that the penis does define the person, and that anyone with a penis would identify as a woman for the purposes of entering such changing rooms and posing a threat to the women inside. It assumes that the penis is the threat, or that any person who has a penis who identifies as a woman is engaging in a base, deceitful, and harmful form of disguise.
“This is a rich fantasy, and one that comes from powerful fears, but it does not describe a social reality. Trans women are often discriminated against in men’s bathrooms, and their modes of self-identification are ways of describing a lived reality, one that cannot be captured or regulated by the fantasies brought to bear upon them.
“The fact that such fantasies pass as public argument is itself cause for worry.”
Judith Butler says that while she is obviously “against online abuse of all kinds” including the “violent or abusive language used online against people like JK Rowling”, she also obviously disagrees with JK Rowling’s views on trans people.
“I confess to being perplexed by the fact that you point out the abuse levelled against JK Rowling, but you do not cite the abuse against trans people and their allies that happens online and in person.”
“If we are going to object to harassment and threats, as we surely should, we should also make sure we have a large picture of where that is happening, who is most profoundly affected, and whether it is tolerated by those who should be opposing it. It won’t do to say that threats against some people are tolerable but against others are intolerable.”
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Philosopher, feminist, author and leading intellectual Judith Butler has artfully dismantled trans-exclusionary feminism and JK Rowling.
