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“Our notions of what a human being is problematically depend on there being two coherent genders. And if someone doesn't comply with either the masculine norm or the feminine norm, their very humaness is called into question.”
“One of feminism’s central ideas: that gender is a reductive trap which limits freedom and curbs individuality, forcing people to deform themselves and their desires in the service of an exploitative and violent system.”
“scholars usually distinguish between 'sex', which is a biological category, and 'gender', a cultural category.”
“Between a real man and a real woman there are innumerable others, some of which are significantly characterized as belonging to the intermediate sex.”
“Virtue cannot be separated into male and female. ... The difference is one of bodies not of souls.”
“People are born female or male but learn to be girls and boys who grow into women and men. This learned behaviour makes up gender identity and determines gender roles.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.