K Kolstad

“TERF, which stands for ‘trans-exclusionary radical feminist’. The first part does not refer to excluding trans people from jobs, housing or other goods: it simply means denying that identifying as a woman makes you one. ‘Radical feminism’ is feminism understood as a liberation movement to free females from the patriarchy – a man cannot be a radical feminist, only an ally. Only females, therefore, can be TERFs. There is no equivalent insult for males who deny that sex can be changed by self-declaration.”
― Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

“I know better than to expect anything but play from a playboy.”
― Ariel Lawhon, Code Name Hélène

“It is a feeble form of dualism, to be sure: the grandeur of Descartes’ ‘I think, therefore I am’ replaced by ‘they/them’ on a pronoun badge.”
― Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

“Within applied postmodernism, objectivity is essentially impossible. Logic and reason are not ideals to be striven for, but attempts to shore up privilege. Language is taken to shape reality, not describe it. Oppression is brought into existence by discourse. Equality is no longer achieved by replacing unjust laws and practices with new ones that give everyone the chance to thrive, but by individuals defining their own identities, and ‘troubling’ or ‘queering’ the definitions of oppressed groups.”
― Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality