Doublethink Quotes

“Transgenderism is an ideology that defines women by essentializing whatever men think women are or should be, and in so doing not only erases our bodies but also our oppression. Women’s oppression cannot be separated from women’s bodies.”
― Janice G. Raymond, Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism

“By accepting the pro-sex work position that prostitution is a ‘choice’, advocates have consigned prostituted women to a segregated class of women who are kept in systems of sexual exploitation that pass for benevolent institutions, especially in those countries and states where the prostitution industry is legalized or decriminalized. So-called ‘progressive’ LGBT+ organizations are in the vanguard of advocating the decriminalizing of prostitution, where brothels, pimping and sex buyers are the building blocks of an ever-expanding sexual exploitation industry that has ravaged the lives of women through a romanticizing of ‘free choice’, a ‘choice’ that is not free for the thousands of women who are abused in the industry.”
― Janice G. Raymond, Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism

“Traditional sex role socialization makes it difficult to be a girl, and the contemporary transgender movement tells girls it has a simple answer to their troubles: “just transition, it’s easy.”
― Janice G. Raymond, Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism

“The ‘transing’ of men, women and children is the new ‘progressive’ version of traditional sex role socialization now supported by a huge gender industry spreading its vast tentacles in influential places.”
― Janice G. Raymond, Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism

“Women are not only being censored but also attacked for words that make trans activists uncomfortable, starting with the very word woman. Instead of woman we are hammered with demeaning terms such as cis-women, menstruators, front holes and TERFs. Given the fact that women worldwide have traditionally been denigrated by words not of our own making such as slut, cunt, and whore — misogynistic slurs that have belittled us for centuries — we are now being called upon to accept further offense by trans activists who find the actual word ‘woman’ blasphemous.”
― Janice G. Raymond, Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism

“[...] incels intentionally work to convince other incels that raping women is a justified response to sexual rejection, so too do the men who claim their penises are ‘lady sticks’. Just as dissatisfied men adhere to the incel creed of beliefs, self-declared lesbians (men) insist that women owe them sex, and that there is something wrong with a world in which women have the power of rejection. There is an incelian feel to the gangs of self-declared women.”
― Janice G. Raymond, Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism

“In the trans world, women become perpetrators, not victims of male violence. Reversal is a strategy trans activists have perfected.”
― Janice G. Raymond, Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism

“Trans activists who demand that women pledge allegiance to trans truths have launched a new age of inquisition. Women are being silenced, shunned and assaulted for speaking the truth that men cannot be women.”
― Janice G. Raymond, Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism

“Women have learned a lot about life through our bodies. Our life history has been lived in our sexed bodies. Dworkin knew that the ‘learning’ women gain from our lives is not some feeling, essence, or ‘ineffable idea’ that men can claim. This learning about a woman’s life is not driven by biology but also not detached from our biology, a material condition in which our bodies help shape the circumstances of our lives. Our bodies are the sites of our oppression.”
― Janice G. Raymond, Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism

“The radical feminist critique of transgenderism is a testimony to women, who are neither the products of male conceit nor the man-made ‘other’ of de Beauvoir’s Second Sex.”
― Janice G. Raymond, Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism

“Trans activists cite the risk of physical harm to self-declared women in men’s spaces as one justification for appropriating women’s spaces, yet trans activists have no concern for natal women and girls who need our own safe spaces now threatened by legislation. If trans-identified women are afraid of men’s spaces and increasingly being protected by legislation, why don’t women who have been subjected to male violence throughout our lives, get the same legal protection.”
― Janice G. Raymond, Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism

“Self-declared women are not women, and attempts to define themselves as such are bogus. Pretending that the female body and the experience of living as a woman are irrelevant — but should be accessible to men — is insulting to women.”
― Janice G. Raymond, Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism

“Women retain not only a common biology but also a unique history as an oppressed class that no man has lived through. Men can’t self-identify their way out of their own bodies, history and life experiences into any meaningful definition of womanhood.”
― Janice G. Raymond, Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism

“Transgender claims can affect all our lives. Once biology and the history and experiences of what it means to live in a sexed body is rejected, there is no touchstone especially for children, who are left with the confusion of picking a gender. This confusion encourages a regression to sex-role stereotypes because it’s the sex-role markers that are out there and easier to grab onto, the confusion ratified by the effects of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. If you like trucks and want to be a fire fighter, you’re a boy. If you like dolls and dress up in frilly clothes, you’re a girl.”
― Janice G. Raymond, Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism

“The extremist transgender movement is one more masculinist attempt to colonize women in the interest of appropriating the female body for one’s self. It’s a superficial preoccupation with women’s body parts and with women’s bodily functions — not a respect for women’s selves.”
― Janice G. Raymond, Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism

“The irony of this more contemporary wave of men seeking confirmation of their status as women is that they seem to abhor the female bodies of natal women, except when they want to wear one and ‘do’ woman better.”
― Janice G. Raymond, Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism

“Trans activists insist that these groups change references to women’s vaginas or breast-feeding and instead call women ‘front holes’ or ‘chest feeders’. Yet it’s OK for self-declared women to be preoccupied with natal women’s reproductive functions in their quest for womb transplants and ability to breast feed, in trans speak known as ‘chest feeding’. Others define natal women as ‘menstruators, egg producers, breeders, uterus owners, or non-men’, terms that degrade and dehumanize and reduce women to body parts. When feminists resist, we are decried as transphobes. We have come to a point where even those who ‘identify’ as feminists seem eager to cede the definition of woman to men.”
― Janice G. Raymond, Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism

“Transgenderism is a contrived ideology born of a regressive biologism that, in its latest version, champions men who claim female brains and female penises. It’s a rogue idea, an unscrupulous philosophy that, to modify Virginia Woolf ’s words, serves as a looking glass “possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man” back to himself as the woman he aspires to be (Woolf, 1929, p. 35). Self-declared women (men) spend a lot of time in front of any mirror that reflects their idealized women back to themselves.”
― Janice G. Raymond, Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism

“What is at stake in the transgender conflict is not just an individual person’s ‘feeling’. Rather, this anti-woman and anti-feminist ideology is having a far-reaching impact on legislation normalizing that men can be women, often with no input from women who would be harmed by the legislation. Unfortunately, where transgender legislation is on the docket, public opinion lags behind public policy.”
― Janice G. Raymond, Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism

“It has always struck me as patronizing when intelligent people caution, in a discussion of transgender, that we must distinguish between trans extremists and the alleged majority of trans-identified persons and activists who do not participate in attacks on women. I think of the multiple times feminists have been reprimanded for speaking about misogyny and, predictably, someone would insist, “not all men are like that.” Or they might accuse us of hating men when the actual problem is woman-hating.”
― Janice G. Raymond, Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism

“Transphobic’ is an easy word to throw at someone because the label sticks. Branding a person transphobic appears to rank with being called a racist or fascist. When labels turn people into fearful bystanders incapable of expressing an honest opinion, not just individuals but also institutions are given permission to disparage women, and governments are emboldened to draft (and pass) legislation that codifies gender tyranny and erases women’s rights. Many people want to remain ignorant, not the ignorance of innocence, but a chosen ignorance that wills not to know.”
― Janice G. Raymond, Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism

“Many African American commentators view Dolezal’s claim to be both arrogant and insulting. African American artist and writer Pippa Fleming argues, “Imagine if white folks ran around claiming they were black or demanded access to our affinity spaces. They would be called deluded racist fools” (Fleming, 2018). Unfortunately, with the transgender intrusion into women’s spaces, reality is reversed, i.e. those who ‘run around’ claiming they are women and demanding access to women and women’s spaces receive accolades and public approval, including the approval of many women.”
― Janice G. Raymond, Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism