The Transgender Question
Morning Comrades, and welcome back to the your second patreon-only dispatch of the week. This email comes a day earlier than usual, only because the Easter weekend means nothing but double shifts, catering and no real time to write for me. As it is, I hope all of you can have a few days of rest and I’ll be back on Monday. You all know the drill by now, here is a link to a free two week trial for all of this. It’s 5USD a month, helps me a great deal to put food on the table and so on.
Getting right into it, the chosen title of this dispatch made me angry already, as it obviously relates to the infamous “Jewish Question” as implemented by the Nazi and their Third Reich. 1 - Technically, I could and probably should make this the shortest newsletter in the 3 year history of this project by simply saying this:
There. Is. No. Trans. Question.
There is no genuine, human, rational, emphatic, caring discussion to be had on the subject in the first place. Considering, however, that our dying empires, especially the UK and the US are so hell bent on using the same old playbook used by the European Fascists of the 20th Century - diverting from their own structural and moral bankruptcy at the hands of capitalism by creating moral outrage at the expense of whatever minority at hand, usually resulting in a genocidal pogroms- and that they are now attempting to use Transgender People ( as well as anyone diverting from their proto-Christian-Fascist concept of sex and associated gender ) as their scapegoat, I will use this platform to make it clear where I and this community stands.
This has little to do with the fact that this is personal, nor with the fact that in my time I have seen, experienced and witnessed our so-called leaders engage in engineered culture wars, be it against metalheads, gays, people with HIV/AIDS, anti-capitalists to whatever that have always resulted in violence and death - even though that would be reason enough to be clear - it’s a question of principle. Whilst I will try to attempt and get a little calmer and more thorough in the philosophical side of this topic later, for now and for everyone to read, I’ll make it as simple so that I even I can understand and have understood it.
When someones personal decision on who they want to be has no impact on your material reality, hurts no one and takes nothing away from it, it is not up for debate. That’s it. It makes no difference to me if John is now Lucy or vice versa - and please feel free to expand that example into the millions of possible identities already imagined and made - people are people and at the very, very least they all deserve our respect, support and help ( when wanted ) and a self-determined life in dignity, at the very least a chance at it. Especially, in our current existence, when people like myself, educated, old, white, men have all the power automatically guaranteed in this hierarchical structure, what are we even talking about it here? John is now Lucy. Cool. Pub anyone? The only people we need be afraid weary and angry about, sit on top of us, always have and these engineered culture debates exist not for the “soul of the country” or other rampant insults to anyones intelligence. As it was with the Gay / Lesbian and then HIV Scare, the anti-muslim racist bullshit seeping out of the US post 9/11 - and we could all name a hundred more - it serves but one purpose, the diversion away from their cruelty, greed and incompetence as well as the division of the working classes against them.
Trans Rights are Human Rights, and furthermore, Trans People are just that, People. Irrespective of philosophical and thus political identification let’s remember the principle upon all of this, me, this community, our movement is based on
“The Service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.”
Muhammed Ali
Oh and if you need it even simpler, Kahless says: "Trans rights are Klingon rights, and Klingon rights are Trans rights."
With that out of the way, I will do my best to put the above into more collected words, with philosophical references and so on below. Truthfully, at its core this isn’t a complicated topic and it’s never been up to debate for me, but obviously, much smarter people than myself have done some incredible work and that’s where we are heading below.
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