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“[Trans women] have to fight to be included within the category “woman�� in a way that is not dissimilar from the earlier struggles of Black women and women of color who were assigned the gender female at birth.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

“When Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling published the piece "TERF Wars" on her blog in the summer of 2020, she specifically mentioned her fear that many transgender men are actually Autistic girls who weren't conventionally feminine, and have been influenced by transactivists on the internet into identifying out of womanhood. In presenting herself as defending disabled "girls," she argued for restricting young trans Autistic people's ability to self-identity and access necessary services and health care.
Rowling's perspective (which she shares with many gender critical folks) is deeply dehumanising to both the trans and Autistic communities.”
― Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

“The process of trying to assimilate into an existing category in many ways runs counter to efforts to produce radical or revolutionary results. And it shows us that we not only should not try to assimilate trans women into a category that remains the same, but that the category itself has to change so it does not simply reflect normative ideas of who counts as women and who doesn’t.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

“There is a long history of extremist movements recruiting damaged and isolated individuals to do their dirty work.”
― Jude Ellison S. Doyle

“Sex workers and their allies are dismissed as the ‘pimp lobby��. Trans people and their allies become the ‘trans cabal��, or in an incredibly offensive formulation, the ‘trans Taliban’��. And any challenge to reactionary feminist views is repackaged, via these conspiracy theories, as evidence that they are indeed right. Terms such as ‘trans Taliban�� echo other reactionary monikers, such as the racist ‘woke Stasi�� and misogynist ‘feminazi��, which are common on the far right. They also tap the contemporary appetite for conspiracy that has supported recent rightward shifts. Reactionary feminists may well be the InfoWars of the movement.”
― Alison Phipps, Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism

“There’s a subtlety to transphobia that we don’t see, because we’re not meant to see it. That subtly lies with making transphobic stereotypes so pervasive that they go unquestioned, unchallenged, undiscussed. So when trans and gender-nonconforming people call out these stereotypes, we should listen. Just because something is a common trope doesn’t mean it isn’t harmful, complicated and worthy of critique.”
― Zeba Blay

“Traversing borders is a threat �� and in the colonial mindset, the borders of class and nationality are at one with the borders of gender. Binary gender is a colonial and capitalist project, what feminist theorist Gloria Anzaldúa called the ‘absolute despot duality that says we are able to be only one or the other��.”
― Alison Phipps, Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism

“Trans people's counter-conception of gender as a joyful and imaginative experience rattles these 'trans-exclusionary radical feminists' or TERFs, for whom gender is simply indicative of one's biologically defined position in a hierarchy of violence.”
― Cradle Community, Brick By Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons

“It's time to celebrate lesbian diversity, not give in to transphobia or let the patriarchy silence us.”
― Ella Braidwood