Author and professor, Judith Butler, made waves after saying that transgender ideology should be “uncomfortable” and aimed at “changing reality.”
Butler on gender
The professor caused reactions after claiming that “gender wasn’t a predetermined reality, but a fluid construct formed by culture, history, and individual identity.”
Transgenderism and feminism
A gender studies professor explained, “When trans people started living openly, something changed in the world… Reality changed.” Butler added, “We are seeing the changing of terms. We no longer speak about family, woman, man, desire, sex in the same way.”
It is uncomfortable
The professor acknowledged that Transgenderism is supposed to make people feel “uncomfortable,” which goes beyond the right, as it brings worry “even among progressive and liberal people.”
Reality is ever-changing
Butler elaborated, “I know there can sometimes be a real resistance to thinking about trans rights… [I]t simply makes them uncomfortable. Why should I have to refer to someone as he or she or they? And yet, at least in the U.S., we learned how to talk about Black people differently.”
Attack on a gender
The professor and published writer continued, “I’m less interested in defending a theory of gender. I’m much more concerned with finding creative and effective ways of countering the attack on gender.”
A sense of self
Butler shared, “One problem is that many people who refuse to allow trans people to define themselves is that they feel that their own self-definition is destabilized.” The professor added, “The idea that we can change reality, transform reality… There’s an instability in that that’s very frightening to people who want to understand their gender as fixed.”
Justice for all
Butler concluded, “We need to re-occupy these notions and show that concerns with racial justice and gender equality in gender freedom are an integral part of any democratic struggle.”
Gender trouble
A post-structuralist philosopher and queer theorist wrote numerous books, including, “Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity,” “Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex,” “Undoing Gender,” “Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?,” and “What World Is This? A Pandemic Phenomenology.”
Butler also talked about sexuality vs. gender
Writing for Big Think, the professor explained, “I think we won’t be able to understand the operations of transphobia, homophobia, if we don’t understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality.”
So many questions
The professor wondered, “Are some people partially humanized and others fully? Are some people gradually or partially dehumanized?” Butler continued, “Is there something left of the human that can’t be dehumanized, and what is this power to humanize or to dehumanize?”
Many scholars share Butler’s opinions
Grace Lavery is an associate professor of English and an expert in trans studies at UC Berkeley. The trans-feminist researcher shared, “There is a kind of conservative feminist position that argues that sex is set in stone, is assigned at birth. And I don’t agree with that.”
Exploring
Lavery revealed, “What I’m really interested in is thinking about the ways in which trans people have helped each other to learn better ways to transition, to effectuate the sex changes we are attempting to pursue.”
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