# Quote — Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Warriors

> What was responsible for the imposition of the present-day rigid sex/gender system in North America? It is not correct to simply blame patriarchy, Chrystos stressed to me. "The real word is 'colonization' and what it has done to the world. Patriarchy is a tool of colonization and exploitation of people and their lands."

- Author: [Leslie Feinberg](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-feinberg.md)
- Book: [Transgender Warriors](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-feinberg/transgender-warriors.md)
- Page: 28
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leslie_Feinberg#Transgender_Warriors) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-feinberg/transgender-warriors/what-was-responsible

## More from this book

> “I saw a devilish thing,” Spanish colonialist Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca wrote in the sixteenth century: “Sinful, heinous, perverted, nefarious, abominable, unnatural, disgusting, lewd"—the language used by the colonizers to describe the acceptance of sex/gender diversity, and of same-sex love most accurately described the viewer, not the viewed. And these sensational reports about Two-Spirit people were used to further "justify" genocide, the theft of Native land and resources, and destruction of their cultures and religions.

p. 22 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-feinberg/transgender-warriors/i-saw-a-devilish.md)