Judith Butler, the feminist philosopher, has said that there is no contradiction between being a feminist and supporting transwomen's right to exist. Ms Butler was speaking to the left wing weekly, Socialist Worker, in which she succinctly summarised why anti-trans women had no right to describe themselves as "feminist". Ms Butler said "
If you think of rights-stripping as a form of state repression, on a spectrum with detention and deportation, then you see that authoritarian powers include all three kinds of legal destitution.