"A feminism that makes room for transgender people still fights to dismantle the structures that prop up gender as a system of oppression, but it does so without passing moral judgment on people who feel the need to change their birth-assigned gender. To reevaulate the relationship between transgender and feminist politics, it is essential to acknowledge that how each of us experiences and understands our gender identity... really is a very idiosyncratic personal matter. It is something prior to, or underlying, our political actions in the world and not in itself a reflection of our political beliefs. Nontransgender people, after all, think of themselves as having a gender, or being a gender, and nobody asks them to defend the political correctness of their 'choice' ... Being transgendered is like being gay - some people are just "that way", though most people aren't. We can be curious about why some people are gay or transgendered, and we can propose all kinds of theories... but ultimately we simply need to accept that some minor fraction of the population (perhaps including ourselves) simply is 'that way'."
- Susan Stryker, Transgender History
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