Janice Raymond quotes
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“I contend that the problem with transsexualism would best be served by morally mandating it out of existence”
-- Janice RaymondSource : "Dispelling Fictions and Disrupting Hashtags". Interview with Julian Vigo, www.counterpunch.org. August 25, 2014.
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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.”
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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 RaymondSource : Janice G. Raymond (1980). “The transsexual empire”
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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 RaymondSource : Source: transadvocate.com
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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 RaymondSource : Source: transadvocate.com
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“The issue of transsexualism is an ethical one that has profound social and moral ramifications.”
-- Janice RaymondSource : Source: transadvocate.com
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“Transsexualism itself is a deeply moral question rather than a medicaltechnical answer.”
-- Janice RaymondSource : Source: transadvocate.com
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“Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.”
Source : Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.19, Transaction Publishers
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“The problem with quotes on the internet is it is hard to verify their authenticity”
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“The problem with the internet is that anyone can just make stuff up”
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“Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.”
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“God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.”
Source : "Mathematical Circles Adieu: A Fourth Collection of Mathematical Stories and Anecdotes". Book by Howard Whitley Eves, 1977.
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