"We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically."

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I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality.

— Judith Butler