FTM Against Queer Theory

  “Who’s to say that your sexuality cannot change and morph over time, and that you can’t grow accustomed to certain things or be nurtured in a certain direction? I feel like that is totally possible to happen… The people who are arguing specifically on the LGBTQ side will want to say that “sexuality never changes” and “I knew I was gay” or “bi” or “trans” or whatever “from the day I was born, I just had to, you know, discover that about myself,” but I always say leave room for the possibility that your world view and your view on sexuality could be completely wrong and that stands for both sides. Yeah, I’m not going to say that sexuality just never changes. I personally couldn’t say that.”     The above statement from the popular conservative YouTuber, Amala Ekpunobi, speaks to the times we are living in. We have regressed to the point that people no longer think that a person is born gay. I do not fault Amala, but this episode speaks to the abject failure of “alphabet s...

  Is “Nonbinary” all Nonsense? After Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble , I discovered the origins of “nonbinary” identity: “Although Foucault's genealogical critique of foundationalism has guided this reading of Levi-Strauss, Freud, and the heterosexual matrix, an even more precise understanding is needed of how the juridical law of psychoanalysis, repression, produces and proliferates the genders it seeks to control. Feminist theorists have been drawn to the psychoanalytic account of sexual difference in part because the Oedipal and pre-Oedipal dynamics appear to offer a way to trace the primary construction of gender. Can the prohibition against incest that proscribes and sanctions hierarchial and binary gendered positions be reconceived as a productive power that inadvertently generates several cultural configurations of gender? Is the incest taboo subject to the critique of the repressive hypothesis that Foucault provides? What would a feminist deployment of that critique look li...

Queer Theory is a field of post-structuralist theory that critiques society’s definitions of gender and sexuality, rejecting a biological basis for homosexuality and transsexuality. It originates in the most privileged and academic of elites, whose writings are completely removed from the realities and oppression of lesbian, gay, bi, and trans people. Its founders, such as Michel Foucault, are also known for defending the decriminalization of rape and pedophilia . Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality ought to be criticized by gay and lesbian rights activists for his position on homosexuality. As my focus is on transsexuality, I will turn my attention to Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble , which has contributed greatly to the backlash against the trans community. I am baffled as to how Gender Trouble became accepted and popularized by members of the trans community, when it was clearly never written for the general public. The book is full of passages like: “Levi-Strauss' notor...