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You know how marxist-leninist differ from liberals in how they define capital - rather than an immutable object we consider capital as a relation (very specifically it is labour - embodied in the relation between the worker and those who own the means of production ie the capitalist. For example, a hammer is only defined as capital once we confirm its relationship between the worker and the bourgoisie).
In that same line of thinking, dialectial materialists would consider gender as a coercive hierarchial social relation that reproduces capitalist exploitation and it is this what is sought to be abolished. One is only a certain gender only in relation to other genders. It is not an immutable charecteristic atomised from society.
I think what might be wrestled here in the article is maybe the contradictions of the liberal conception of empancipation.
Let's make the abstract concrete. In the west one could consider that gay rights was "accepted" because they had to succumb to patriarchial concepts of self ie they were born gay as an immutable characteristic and it is because of this characteristic therefore they should be given rights. What if it was not an immutable characteristic?
This conundrum (for liberals) stems from the bourgoisie conception of what feminism should mean; emancipation means taking space at the table of the bourgoisie white cis-male. Liberation for the liberal ends up meaning to have the power of the bourgoisie to exploit, or at least have a fair chance of aquiring this power to exploit.
With that in mind what would liberal conception of trans liberation then look like? It essentially means equal oppurtunity to become bourgoisie too and the cultural dynamics in the proletetiat to uphold this hegemony.
So how would marxism sublimate this? What would marxist liberation for trans/queer folk look like? Where will that journey take us? Would we be still be upholding gender as defined above? I think the road will take us to the abolition of gender.
I strongly suspect that the default is that we are all on the spectrum but those who consider ourselves straight and cis have a greater ontological adherence to gender and sexuality as defined by our bourgoisie society. I strongly suspect that these characteristics aren't as immutable as we "straight folk" think we are.
I had a similar thought that you put into words better than I would have done. I have seen "gender abolition" in a Marxist sense as the result of achieving a classless society where class (in any form, including gender) no longer exists and class exploitation is eliminated.