traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns
Welcome to /c/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns, an anti-capitalist meme community for transgender and gender diverse people.
-
Please follow the Hexbear Code of Conduct
-
Selfies are not permitted for the personal safety of users.
-
No personal identifying information may be posted or commented.
-
Stay on topic (trans/gender stuff).
-
Bring a trans friend!
-
Any image post that gets 200 upvotes with "banner" or "rule 6" in the title becomes the new banner.
-
Posts about dysphoria/trauma/transphobia should be NSFW tagged for community health purposes.
-
When made outside of NSFW tagged posts, comments about dysphoria/traumatic/transphobic material should be spoiler tagged.
-
Arguing in favor of transmedicalism is unacceptable. This is an inclusive and intersectional community.
-
While this is mostly a meme community, we allow most trans related posts as we grow the trans community on the fediverse.
If you need your neopronouns added to the list, please contact the site admins.
Remember to report rulebreaking posts, don't assume someone else has already done it!
Matrix Group Chat:
Suggested Matrix Client: Cinny
https://rentry.co/tracha (Includes rules and invite link)
WEBRINGS:
🏳️⚧️ Transmasculine Pride Ring 🏳️⚧️

view the rest of the comments
you don't care? exploiting cis disabled poc would be ok with you? what are you even saying? calling yourself a communist
Even if they all were able bodied [cis] white men (a category that also includes a lot of disabled people, of course), they would be poor (renting from a slumlord). I don't think it's productive to (I'm not saying you're doing this, you're not, I'm just talking generally) look for people that it's OK to exploit financially, anyone who would end up getting exploited would by definition be underprivileged. This whole line of thinking seems like it's the opposite of revolutionary. It's understandable, but it's reactionary and it will never lead to liberation for anyone.
completely agree comrade
I also think that the example of disabled people is particularly relevant, because elsewhere in this thread OP compares this idea to saving Jews during the Holocaust by any means necessary. We have been and continue to be killing millions of disabled people around the world by allowing preventable disease to spread. This is explicitly being justified by the ruling classes by openly saying their lives have less value and are acceptable sacrifices (it doesn't just kill disabled people, but disabled people are the ones targeted by this kind of genocidal rhetoric to justify it). This is why this kind of approach doesn't work, this is the point of intersectionality.
Honestly the segregation between different kind of communities is so bad I get where the poster is coming from. If she’s are already reaching out to other communities for help and nobody is biting, what else can she do. I made a pointless comment earlier last night, but now that I slept over it I feel kind of bad, because like what can she do?
I’m genuinely asking in good faith. I still don’t think it’s useful to make it cis vs trans vs disabled. It should be comrade vs capitalist. Harsh reality however is that many comrades seem to be hellbelt on being divided and this is driving reactionary sentiment, that we have to solve somehow.
If this was happening irl what we should be doing is helping marcie and that’d change her views, but what can we do here? There’s only so much. It’s really frustrating. I think all of us want unity, but when we try to achieve it we keep running into walls. If someone is in a hostile environment that rejects them is it even possible to be a communist? Like materially. idk
I agree with you, actually. I totally see where she's coming from. But the line of thinking is bad not just from a moral standpoint but also a practical one. This wouldn't work. It would literally just make the people involved priority targets for bigots while being completely ineffective in anything more than the extremely short term, if even that.
Yeah, these are really hard questions. I don't really have any easy answers, I wish I did. But I do think that the ideas in this post are not an answer at all, especially from a practical standpoint.
I agree with you. One of the things about socialist systems is that they offer non-discriminatory assistance and job positions. If such a system would be implemented transgender people would gain more power, they would be able to battle the cultural hegemony better, which is what the real cause of transphobia is imo.
Even Parenti had not the best views on the queer community, but what changes his mind was the Stonewall riots, at least I remember him talking about it on stage.
But we need socialism. We just don't have the material resources needed to produce a counter-cultural movement and it certainly won't happen all on our own.