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Up next, Brian Lairor Weekend,

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Good morning again, everyone. Now we will ask, who's afraid of gender?

That's the title of a new book by Judith Butler, Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School at UC Berkeley,

whose groundbreaking book called Gender Trouble has frequently been taught in colleges for the last 30 years.

They also wrote the

influential book, Bodies That Matter, and other books as well. In their new book, Who's

Afraid of Gender? Butler takes on what they call the anti-gender ideology movement and why it's

become so central to conservative politics in the U.S. and abroad. Now, some of you may remember that I

talked recently on the show about a promotional mailer I got from the conservative Hillsdale

College in Hillsdale, Michigan, advertising their school and looking for donations, and that the very

first line of the letter said, quote, if we're going to save America from the growing

threats of socialism, transgenderism, and Marxism, there's only one way we can do it, education.

And I thought, which one of these does not belong? And obviously, to me anyway, it was

transgenderism. You know, socialism and Marxism, you can believe in them or not,

okay, fine. But transgenderism, how you experience your own body as an ism, a belief system,

a political philosophy. That was just hate speech. It struck me. So now we can talk to somebody

who knows a lot more about this than I do

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