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[[Feminism|Feminist]] Andrea Dworkin wrote in 1974 of an idealized, gender-abolitionist future society:
[[Feminism|Feminist]] Andrea Dworkin wrote in 1974 of an idealized, gender-abolitionist future society:
{{quote|...by changing our premises about men and women, role-playing, and polarity, the social situation of [[transsexual]]s will be transformed, and transsexuals will be integrated into community, no longer persecuted and despised. [...] 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 [[gender roles|roles]] disappear, the phenomenon of transsexuality will disappear and that energy will be transformed into new modes of sexual identity and behavior.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/john-stoltenberg-andrew-dworkin-was-trans-ally/ |last=Stoltenberg |first=John|title=Andrea Dworkin Was a Trans Ally| date=8 April 2020}}</ref>}}
{{quote|...by changing our premises about men and women, role-playing, and polarity, the social situation of [[transsexual]]s will be transformed, and transsexuals will be integrated into community, no longer persecuted and despised. [...] 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 [[gender roles|roles]] disappear, the phenomenon of transsexuality will disappear and that energy will be transformed into new modes of sexual identity and behavior.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/john-stoltenberg-andrew-dworkin-was-trans-ally/ |last=Stoltenberg |first=John|title=Andrea Dworkin Was a Trans Ally| date=8 April 2020 |work=Boston Review}}</ref>}}


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