What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and similarly, to refrain from proscribing for all lives what is unlivable for some.

Eğer toplumsal cinsiyet transvestit ise, ve eğer bu, yaklaşmayı denediği ideali düzenli olarak doğuran bir taklitse, o zaman toplumsal cinsiyet, bir içsel cinsiyet ya da öz ya da psişik toplumsal cinsiyet çekirdeği yanılsamasını doğuran bir temsildir; içsel derinlik yanılsamasını tende, jestle, hareketle, yürüyüşle (cinsiyetin takdimi olarak anlaşılan bedensel temsiller silsilesiyle) doğurur.

The anticipation of an authoritative disclosure of meaning is the means by which that authority is attributed and installed: the anticipation conjures its object.

[...] we must learn to live and to embrace the destruction and rearticulation of the human in the name of a more capacious and, finally, less violent world, not knowing in advance what precise our form our humanness can and does take. It means we must be open to its permutations, in the name of nonviolence. [...] The necessity of keeping our notion of the human open to a future articulation is essential to the project of international human rights discourse and its politics.

Materie ist immer etwas zur Materie Gewordenes.

The misapprehension about gender performativity is this: that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today.

Es gibt kein Ich vor der Annahme eines Geschlechts.

We must be undone in order to do ourselves: we must be part of a larger social fabric of existence in order to create who we are.

If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called ‘sex’ is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.