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A flick of a switch is all it takes. After which, nothing will ever be quite the same again. And yet, even if it is never the same as before, it too will become habitual, it will come to constitute part of the commonsensical way of seeing things. None of us is immune. I've seen it happen. I've been part of it. I've been assimilated into the police order. So have you. The police order is how we think, how we make sense of the world, what constitutes itself as common sense. First there was sexism. Then there was feminism. Feminism became part of the police order insofar as it started policing who could, and who could not, count as a woman. Then there was the transgender movement, and feminists found themselves having to rethink why certain body parts had somehow become essential to what it meant to be a woman, and who had the right to determine which body parts qualified and in what ways, and how feminism's policing of bodies reflected the very order of thought it was trying to escape.