How can you recognize that

  1. Trans people revolutionize thought about gender and sexuality

And then not recognize that

  1. Trans women revolutionize politics

I love like

“Yeah trans people are fine but sometimes their politics are crraaaaazyyyyy

  • ghost_of_faso2
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    9 months ago

    Its because trans people demand efficient healthcare and that is inherently revolutionary in a western system that seems hell bent on gouging as many people as possible for healthcare; this tends to produce more radical political positions, as well as how trans people get marganlized and tend to become allied with the far-left due to how we’re not fucking psychos.

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      9 months ago

      Is bad Healthcare a tenet of capitalism? Seems more like a consequence to me, and regardless if liberals needed a reason to think about it they still had countless before they cared about trans people. I guess trans people allying left counts as trans politics but then how is that any more ‘revolutionary’ than other minorities and non minorities on the left? Feels op must’ve meant something else

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        9 months ago

        Is bad Healthcare a tenet of capitalism?

        its less about the quality and more about the accesability of it; trans people find themselves needing to wait 3-4x longer for standard appointments than other people because they are de-prioritized for treatment and there legal recongition is often gatekeeped behind hospital doors.

        Also the UK, which is my perspective only has a single hospital setup to treat trans people, with a waiting list of 8 years; trans people often have to goto the black market to get medicine they need.

        All this togther with a media enviroment that demonizes them and then you find communists preaching actual answers to all of this; socialized health care like cuba, taking control of the media to stop them from creating moral panics against LGBT+ people and a focus on improving there material conditions.

        Think about how the far right approach this, its less nuanced and more fear based. We have sciencetific thought on our side, we will win.

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        9 months ago

        In the the hellish country known as the US, yes.