Den kjente ideologen og forkjemperen for radikal kjønnsteori, Judith Butler, sier blant annet i et intervju til The Guardian at “anti-kjønnsideologien er en av de dominerende stemmene for fascisme i vår tid,” og refererte til alle som mener at sex er “biologisk og ekte eller at sex er guddommelig ordinert”, inkludert TERFs som J.K. Rowling, fascister som Tucker Carlson, og religiøse konservative som rep. Greg Steube (R-FL). Deres definisjon av “anti-kjønnsideologi-bevegelsen” inkluderer også anti-homofile aktivister som motstandere av ekteskapslikhet og antifeminister som ønsker å tvinge kvinner til å følge tradisjonelle kjønnsroller.
LGBTQnation kommenterer intervjuet slik:
Butler was talking about their seminal work, Gender Trouble, and how it has affected queer, trans, and leftist politics over three decades after it was published. Interviewer Jules Gleeson asked Butler about the recent protests at the Wi Spa in Los Angeles, where members of the fascist hate group Proud Boys and QAnon believers protested alongside evangelicals and other transphobes over the possibility that a trans woman used the spa.
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“It is very appalling and sometimes quite frightening to see how trans-exclusionary feminists have allied with rightwing attacks on gender,” they said. “The anti-gender ideology movement is not opposing a specific account of gender, but seeking to eradicate ‘gender’ as a concept or discourse, a field of study, an approach to social power.”
“Sometimes they claim that ‘sex’ alone has scientific standing, but other times they appeal to divine mandates for masculine domination and difference. They don’t seem to mind contradicting themselves.”
Butler has long argued against the idea that biological sex is an objective truth, instead saying that it is gender applied to the body. Even the people who most emphatically say that biological sex is the only way to determine who is a man or a woman base their entire idea of biological sex on gender stereotypes.
