[Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this light, as directly political, medical abuse of human rights. The mutilation of healthy bodies and the subjection of such bodies to dangerous and life-threatening continuing treatment violates such people's rights to live with dignity in the body into which they were born.
[Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this light, … - Sheila Jeffreys
[Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this light, …
- Sheila Jeffreys
Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality sexy. … - Sheila Jeffreys
Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality sexy. …
Recent literature on transsexualism in the lesbian community draws connections with the practices of sadomasochism. - Sheila Jeffreys
Recent literature on transsexualism in the lesbian community draws connections with the practices of sadomasochism.
Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender … - Sheila Jeffreys
Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender …
Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning. - Sheila Jeffreys
Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.
As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women as members of a sex caste that … - Sheila Jeffreys
As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women as members of a sex caste that …
Male supremacy is centered on the act of sexual intercourse, justified by heterosexual practice. - Sheila Jeffreys
Male supremacy is centered on the act of sexual intercourse, justified by heterosexual practice.
The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire. - Sheila Jeffreys
The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire.
Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradatio… - Sheila Jeffreys
Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradatio…
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