Janice Raymond

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I contend that the problem with transsexualism would best be served by morally mandating it out of existence
- Janice Raymond
Collection: Problem
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While there are many who feel that morality must be built into law, I believe that the elimination of transsexualism is not best achieved by legislation prohibiting transsexual treatment and surgery but rather by legislation that limits it and by other legislation that lessens the support given to sex-role stereotyping, which generated the problem to begin with.
- Janice Raymond
Collection: Sex
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Is individual gender suffering relieved at the price of role conformity and the perpetuation of role stereotypes on a social level? In changing sex, does the transsexual encourage a sexist society whose continued existence depends upon the perpetuation of these roles and stereotypes? These and similar questions are seldom raised in transsexual therapy at present.
- Janice Raymond
Collection: Sex
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Yet the transgender lobby aggressively attacks any critical voice as transphobic and tries to censor us from speaking. There is a big difference between criticism and transphobia. The transgender lobby knows that censoring criticism allows the accusation of transphobia to prevail and appears willing to distort the words of those they disagree with.
- Janice Raymond
Collection: Voice
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The issue of transsexualism is an ethical one that has profound social and moral ramifications.
- Janice Raymond
Collection: Issues
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The transsexually constructed lesbian-feminist feeds off woman’s true energy source, i.e. her woman-identified self. It is he who recognises that if female spirit, mind, creativity and sexuality exist anywhere in a powerful way it is here, among lesbian-feminists.
- Janice Raymond
Collection: Powerful
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Transsexualism itself is a deeply moral question rather than a medicaltechnical answer.
- Janice Raymond
Collection: Answers