Revolutionary Feminism is class-conscious
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Revolutionary Feminism is class-conscious
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Trans people do not fit into the patriarchal gender and sex binary, which means it’s impossible for us as a class to reinforce the patriarchal gender and sex binary.
Could an individual trans person intentionally try to conform to or uphold the gender binary? Yeah, of course, and the patriarchy might use them as a token “good trans”, but they won’t actually ever be accepted by the patriarchy. Furthermore, this post is about systemic qualities of gender and sex and how trans people as a class do not fit into the patriarchal gender and sex binary. The existence of trans people is counter to the entire structure of the patriarchal concept of binary genders and sexes.
This is because patriarchal gender and sex binaries can only exist in context to cisgender, gender-conforming men and women. The patriarchal framework of gender and sex is one in which these concepts are linked. Under the patriarchy, “man = male” and “woman = female”. Anyone insisting that these binaries exist and are inherently linked is supporting the patriarchy. Trans people do not believe gender and sex are inherently linked.
Furthermore, you cannot be transgender and uphold the patriarchal gender and sex binary, because the patriarchal gender and sex binary does not recognize transgender people even exist. Every single trans person exists outside the patriarchal structure of the gender and sex binary. None of us fit inside it.
In the eyes of the patriarchy, a trans woman is a male who is failing to be a gender conforming man, and a trans man is a female who is failing to be a gender-conforming woman. And the same thing goes for nonbinary people – a male nonbinary person is just a man failing to conform to manhood, and a female nonbinary person is just a woman failing to conform to womanhood. The patriarchy views trans people as freaks who are deviating from societal norms. The patriarchy says you are either a failed man, or a failed woman, and you should just stop trying to be something you aren’t.
Therefore… No trans person in existence has EVER been part of the structure of the patriarchal gender and sex binary. Plus, MANY of us are gender nonconforming and many of us are not of a binary sex, meaning many of us do not identify as man or woman, male or female anyway. How on Earth can we be upholding a system we don’t belong in and don’t identify with?
Trans people don’t believe you have to be female to be a woman. Trans people don’t believe you have to be male to be a man. Trans people don’t believe that gender or sex are unchangeable things. Trans people literally do not believe in the gender and sex binary, and the patriarchy does not believe we exist.
I believe in gender liberation.
Female oppression and the oppression of women is real and it sucks. I hate that a false hierarchy of male over female (and by extension man over woman) has been created in so many societies and religions — and I hate that some feminists are insisting on maintaining that hierarchy just so they can be transphobic. I hate that some feminists think this means we need to destroy religion, thereby invalidating and erasing the work of millions of feminists of faith who have worked so hard for equality within their religions.
Male and female aren’t as different as extremists on both sides want you to believe. Males and females are in fact equal! We are in fact biologically very similar. Sex is not and has never been a binary; it is a spectrum, with a bimodal distribution. Believing in bioessentialism, that there is an insurmountable gulf between male and female, and that males and females have inherent traits and behaviors, is antifeminist.
Gender, as a social construct, is complicated. It can be a form of euphoric expression, a way to connect to your culture or religion or ethic identity and express joy in belonging, to connect to your ancestors and your descendants — but it can be also way for that culture to oppress you.
Trans people are on the forefront of dissecting all of this, of playing with gender and sex in ways that tease it apart from the oppressive systems our societies built simultaneously with these identities. We are, in essence, abolishing the traditional social construct of gender and building it anew as as a form of individual human expression, not a system of oppression linked to birth sex.
And if gender critical feminists, radfems, and gender abolitionists aren’t on board with that, then I’m not sure what more trans folks could possibly do.
https://hadeantaiga.wordpress.com/2023/11/24/gender-liberation/
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The "genderless society" of radfem gender abolitionists is identical to the way patriarchal society looks right now. "Man/woman" won't be genders anymore, they'll be synonyms for male/female. Pronouns will be based on sex assigned at birth. A person will have to dress and act in a way that conforms to the patriarchal gendered stereotypes attached to sex they were assigned at birth so everyone knows what pronouns to use. Somehow, doing this (aka doing things exactly how we are doing them right now) means gender stereotypes will disappear and females will have as many rights as males... according to radfems. I don't buy it.
Instead, we can be gender liberationists. We can support trans and GNC people. We can decouple gender from sex. We can decouple pronouns from sex and from gender. We can disrupt gender stereotypes. We can actually fight for equality between all people.
That's my goal.
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No matter how you slice or dice it, feminism is the movement that benefits gender minorities of all kinds. Literally so many aspects of how trans people are oppressed are entirely caused by the patriarchy. Gender stereotypes, sex stereotypes, gender roles, sex roles, reproductive rights, healthcare rights, just so much of it is caused by the patriarchy.
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