Condemnation Quote by Judith Butler

[Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this light, as…

— Sheila Jeffreys

It is always brave to insist on undergoing transformations that feel necessary and right even when there are so many obstructions to doing so,…

— Judith Butler

“We have created a rhetoric of “gender identity” that is disconnected from biological sexual fact, and we have done so largely in the service…

— Kevin D Williams

Transsexualism itself is a deeply moral question rather than a medicaltechnical answer.

— Janice Raymond

I reject totally the characterization of a transwoman as a mutilated man. First, that formulation presumes that men born into that sex assignment are…

— Judith Butler

“And sometimes being mutilated can work to your advantage. All those people now with piercings and tattoos and brandings and scarification... What I mean…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The issue of transsexualism is an ethical one that has profound social and moral ramifications.

— Janice Raymond

Female genital mutilation targets little girls, baby girls - fragile angels who are helpless, who cannot fight back. It's a crime against a child,…

— Waris Dirie

Nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional…

— Judith Butler

The preoccupation with transition and with surgery objectifies trans people, and we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences.

— Laverne Cox

Historians of the future will find it incredible that we mutilated babies by cutting off the end of their penises in the name of…

— Dean Edell

As a Jew and a psychologist, I understand the stress that religious communities feel in connection with questioning of circumcision... I raise these questions…

— Ronald Goldman