Kylee Nixon

“Consider the allegation that “gender”—whatever it is—puts the lives of children at risk. This is a powerful accusation. For some, as soon as the accusation is spoken, it becomes true, and children are not threatened with harm, but are actively being harmed. When that swift conclusion is reached, there is only one option: Stop the harm! Stamp out gender! The fear of children being”
― Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

“The weaponization of this fearsome phantasm of “gender” is authoritarian at its core. Rolling back progressive legislation is surely fueled by backlash, but backlash describes only the reactive moment in this scene. The project of restoring the world to a time before “gender” promises a return to a patriarchal dream-order that may never have existed but that occupies the place of “history” or “nature”—an order that only a strong state can restore.”
― Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

“The targeting of sexual and gender minorities as dangers to society, as exemplifying the most destructive force in the world, in order to strip them of their fundamental rights, protections, and freedoms, implicates the anti–gender ideology in fascism. As panic builds, full license is given to the state to negate the lives of those who have come to represent, through the syntax of the phantasm, a threat to the nation.”
― Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

“Hatred is stoked and rationalized by moral righteousness, and all those damaged and destroyed by hateful movements are cast as the truer agents of destruction.”
― Judith Butler