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She is the amerikkkan supremacists that pushed fake news about trans people in China by the way
she fucking sucks, never thought I'd hear libs rolling out 'actually transness is bourgeois"
China has state backed clinics for trans youth https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-health-and-wellness/china-opens-first-clinic-transgender-youth-rcna5313
And not trying to completely conflate sexual orientation and gender issues but with the track the GDR was on i.e. having state run gay bars, I think it can be reasonably assumed they would have been on the forefront(as far as states go) on trans issues and may have built their own clinic had the bad guys not won the cold war
The DDR did have government-funded surgery for trans people, no need to assume they would have.
This is from the FTM Newsletter (which was one of the biggest sources of trans info at the time) Issue #12, June 1990.
Fucking fuck, fuck, fuck, FUUUUUUCK. How could we fuck this up so badly...
Another fun fact: while Stalin-era USSR policies returned to "family values" and criminalizing queer identities, it is entirely inaccurate to say that the decriminalization of queerness was a "side-effect" of abolishing tsarist anti-sodomy laws. Post-October Revolution, the USSR was incredibly purposeful in not reinstating anti-sodomy laws (which were in effect in most of the world at the time). Grigorii Batkiss, the Director for the Institute of Social Hygiene in Moscow, outlined the Bolshevik stance on sexual identity in 1923: "It declares the absolute non-interference of the state and society into sexual matters, so long as nobody is injured, and no one’s interests are encroached upon." In 1925, Dr. Batkiss participated in the World League for Sexual Reform, and wrote The Sexual Revolution in Russia. The World League promoted sexual rights for men and women, abortion access, freedom from patriarchal sexual roles, and tolerance of alternative sexual lifestyles.
While concrete evidence of this part is hard to track down, Sean Egan mentions in The Bolsheviks and the Sexual Revolution that part of the Soviet reframing of marriages included secular marriages, with reports of same-sex secular marriages being established.
This was no by-product, but a concerted Soviet effort to rethink sexual identity and freedom. As for trans people: post-Revolution women were known to change their names, wear men's clothes, partner with other women, take on "men's" jobs in the military and heavy industry. And there were doctors who could apply for permission to perform rudimentary gender affirmation surgeries, as well, which were cutting edge at the time, and a result of close partnership with Herschfield's Institute.
Source on that? I don't disbelieve you, Weimar Germany was on the cutting edge of trans liberation and gender-confirming surgeries
Magnus Hirschfeld having performed some of the first gender confirming surgeries, and was one of the first to have their work burned by the Nazis
And some within the DDR revived this tendency, despite internal and more significant external pressure
Plus Cuba has inclusive gender/sexual orientation laws, and spent big state money a while back to send doctors abroad to learn how to do SRS so there literally are designer vaginas under communism.
Women Have Better Sex & Vaginas Under Socialism
Were can I learn about these "state run gay bars"?
In late 1980s East Berlin, the LGBTQ+ community experienced a period of paradoxical "liberalization" and continued state surveillance, with the government making some concessions while the Stasi monitored and infiltrated activist groups. The state allowed organizations like the Sonntags-Club to form, equalized the age of consent for same-sex and heterosexual acts, and produced the film Coming Out, yet the secret police continued their surveillance to prevent the emergence of an autonomous political movement.
(from google thus the 'paradoxical' framing)
I maybe getting a couple of things conflated but I think the Sonntag club in east berlin, despite the org running it being persecuted during the 70's, latter in the 80's the persecution ended and their club was given state backing needed to exist
And obviously while not being perfect; compared to capitalist Nazi staffed and influenced West Germany, where certain homosexual acts were put-you-in prison illegal until as late as '94 even post-reunification, shows the stark difference between the two entities
The GDR was there albeit still early days, but they had already had state funded gender surgeries, it's where Cuba sent their doctors in the 80s to learn how to perform them and where they got their medical texts on the topic.
I'm working backwards because I'm remembering from Leslie Feinbergs excellent (and free) book on LGBT stuff in Cuba, where she mentions it. But the book is more focused on Cuba than the GDR.
There is no designer vagina under communism
Ah but is it a designer vagina? Or does the state issue everyone the same vagina?
In gommunism, all women share one big communal vagina
mom said it's my turn with the people's vagina
Not even the same style of vagina, but the same singular vagina
GDR had surgeries and hormones paid for by the state too
Why do they write like a villain monologuing?
Marvel probably
so that just happened
No "designer vaginas", just free medical care to all who need it.
(Spoiler, the designer vaginas are also part of the necessary free medical care)
Are trans bourgeois
fully automated designer vagina space communism when
Orville season 3
There is no designer vagina under communism
Who is this loser white woman?
Whoa whoa whoa that's incredibly offensive to us innocent losers.
Nice argument. Unfortunately I have already depicted you as the smug bourgoisie and me as the brave champion of the working class
Liberals don't really do theory, they do market research, to sell their customers the idea of being temporarily disadvantaged.
no designer vagina under communism
if it wasn't for the other part i could see this being a deal like captain picard being bald because nobody cares about genitals.
Westoids when they hate and oppress a minority and they side with the west's enemy because they both have a common enemy in them.
god forbid I have a diagnosable mental condition that needs treatment.
Denying reality is not very left wing of you. ts pisses me off so bad. There's literally studies if you gave a fuck.
People not caring about evidence is going to be the death of me
The internet has allowed me to see more human penises and vaginas than the bricks of the Roman Coliseum. No two really look alike. The idea that trans health will ever be some uniform thing is preposterous. No human healthcare is one-size-fits-all. Nothing human is one-size-fits-all. Under communism this person would be forced to log the fuck off for wasting time.
Also “we can’t afford to eschew electoralism” didn’t need to actually be written, of course this fucking dork would think electoralism is important. They’re ranting about bourgeois anything and giving a pass to electoralism? Western chauvinist liberal electoral politics isn’t too infested with bourgeois ideology? But trans genitals are? Half of the politicians are literally owners of the means of production: politicians that gamed liberal electoralism. This person’s brain is made up of those plastic cap rings bored teenagers pry off their soda bottles. Just a big pile of those.
They’re ranting about bourgeois anything and giving a pass to electoralism?
I think you're misunderstanding. She's not ranting about the bourgeoisie, she's saying that trans people owe our existence to capitalism and therefore capitalism is good.
"All trans people are rich entitled coastal elites... which is good actually, we need capitalism to produce class disparity so that people can be privileged enough to be trans."
Liberals 🤝 fascists 🤝 acp nazbols
🤝 🤝
well yes, people sitting on the intersections of oppression might get pointier end of the capital stick than people doing designer vaginas. Dastardly communists also were agitating among black people until they got rolled into crackerdom.
Imagine fighting for or defending anything that doesn't, by hook or by crook, ultimately end in greater personal freedoms. Literally what else is there in America to venerate besides the (idea of the) freedom of an individual? Would a more just society venerate capital harder? More genocide? Racism? Sexism? The machine doesn't do anything else.
This ought to gave a CW for transphobia b, also what a sack of shit, people who have never met a trans person, please stfu
Edit omg she's trans, okay just admit your bourgeois then, don't paint me with your brush, swine