Mick Hartley

“What's the wound to lesbianism, if the category of women is expanded to include transwomen? What’s the wound?”

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The "wound", as everyone knows but she pretends not to, is that men can't be lesbians: that men claiming to be lesbians, complaining that women who aren't interested in them as sexual partners are "transphobic", is pure gas-lighting. And it's the same gas-lighting that Butler is doing here: there's no rational reason that she can see – or that she claims she can see – that these lesbians don't accept trans women. It can only be a hatred, a phobia.

For Stonewall's Nancy Kelley, lesbians not wanting to sleep with trans women is sexual racism; for Butler it's hatred, a phobia. At least Nancy Kelley makes no claims to be one of the world's leading philosophical thinkers.