Transgender liberation, class politics & anarchism

http://www.wsm.ie/c/transgender-liberation-class-anarchism

"Persecution of minorities tends to increase in economic downturns and 539 trans people were murdered in Europe between 2008 and 2010."



 This article makes an excellent point that I think is overlooked a lot of times.. True liberation of gender issues cannot be solved solely through revolution focused only on class. It will not automatically solve the gender issues without considering gender, sex, race, and sexuality.

Another interesting point made in this article is how the Trans community is somewhat reluctantly included by the rest of LGB community as it's written below:

"Recently, trans people have made huge progress in fighting f"or their liberation, and almost all major lesbian and gay organisations have become lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) organisations. Trans people’s inclusion in those organisations has not been an easy battle though, despite the fact that transgender people (notably Sylvia Rivera) have been prominent in fighting for queer liberation, including in the Stonewall riots. One reason LGB organisations were reluctant to accept trans people was that they saw them as an obstacle to gaining respectability and becoming assimilated into mainstream capitalist society. Trans people are sometimes more visibly queer than lesbian and gay men, and in modern gay male culture, especially, there is an emphasis on gaining acceptance from straight people by being as traditionally masculine as possible."




- Juwon