It seems the Guardian edited that interview with Judith Butler.

It did?

So first thing I did was find that bit in my post from this morning, so that I could see how much was cut.

The Terfs (trans exclusionary radical feminists) and the so-called gender critical writers have also rejected the important work in feminist philosophy of science showing how culture and nature interact (such as Karen Barad, Donna Haraway, EM Hammonds or Anne Fausto-Sterling) in favor of a regressive and spurious form of biological essentialism. So they will not be part of the coalition that seeks to fight the anti-gender movement. The anti-gender ideology is one of the dominant strains of fascism in our times. So the Terfs will not be part of the contemporary struggle against fascism, one that requires a coalition guided by struggles against racism, nationalism, xenophobia and carceral violence, one that is mindful of the high rates of femicide throughout the world, which include high rates of attacks on trans and genderqueer people.

Here’s the surprise: they seem to have cut that entire paragraph.

I wonder if they will pause to think a little bit now. I wonder if they will pause to think and thus finally grasp that that’s not who we are. We’re not “the Terfs,” we’re not the enemy, we’re not in favor of regressive anything, and we’re most certainly not fans of racism, nationalism, xenophobia, carceral violence, femicide, or attacks on trans and genderqueer people.

How fucking dare she?

I’ll be interested to learn what else got cut.

Updating to add: I forgot the (possibly) best bit: their reason for editing.

• Jules Joanne Gleeson is a queer historian. She is also the co-editor of Transgender Marxism
• This article was edited on 7 September 2021 to reflect developments which occurred after the interview took place

What “developments”? It’s an interview, so it’s not as if there were developments that changed what Judith Butler had already said. So what developments? What kind of developments? A lot of furious lefty women telling the Guardian that Butler told a pack of lies? Couldn’t they have figured that out for themselves?