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Quotes from The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto — Sandy Stone

born 1936 United States

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To attempt to occupy a place as speaking subject within the traditional gender frame is to become complicit in the discourse which one wishes to deconstruct.

The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto (1991)

Transsexuals for whom gender identity is something different from and perhaps irrelevant to physical genitalia are occulted by those for whom the power of the medical/psychological establishments, and their ability to act as gatekeepers for cultural norms, is the final authority for what counts as a culturally intelligible body.

The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto (1991)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sandy Stone (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.