Dense defense of queerness, transness, and gender nonconformity, including a lot of detailed mapping of how right-wing groups are connected across nations and invest in a fantasy that they are under deathly threat. Because they imagine their own gender commitments might be stripped away by force, they decide they have to suppress others. As she points out, this fear depends on the understanding that it would be very wrong to deprive someone of their sexual identity—and yet it’s weaponized to do the very same thing to other people. Butler also explains how “gender critical feminists” ignore a key feminist insight, which is the need to build coalitions, including with people you don’t like—including, as Black feminists like Bernice Johnson Reagon have known, people who could in other circumstances be a threat to your life. TERFs think they lose something when trans women are women too, as if sex were property, but it isn’t and they don’t. Butler has a tough message for Western feminists, which is that conditioning aid on recognizing gender equality in law can frame equality as a Western, therefore bad, concept, while the West’s sanctimony on human rights rings hollow given its disinterest in the right to food, shelter, and so on. ( )

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