Gender abolitionism

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Gender abolitionism broadly refers to viewpoints that advocate the dissolution of gender roles and gender norms. A related term is postgenderism, the idea that human culture should advance beyond gender.

One source writes that "gender abolition is about dismantling the basal structures of the patriarchy, not about barring people from expressing their identity" and that "gender abolition does not prevent people from engaging with masculinity and femininity and constructing their identities around those concepts."

Feminist Andrea Dworkin wrote in 1974 of an idealized, gender-abolitionist future society:

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...by changing our premises about men and women, role-playing, and polarity, the social situation of transsexuals will be transformed, and transsexuals will be integrated into community, no longer persecuted and despised. [In this way], community built on androgynous identity will mean the end of transsexuality as we know it. Either the transsexual will be able to expand his/her sexuality into a fluid androgyny, or, as roles disappear, the phenomenon of transsexuality will disappear and that energy will be transformed into new modes of sexual identity and behavior.

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