I think I'm reverting a bit into some misanthropic and nihilistic tendencies, but at this point I feel like I don't even care about bad things happening to cis people. Everything feels worse for trans people, and I spend a lot of time helping other trans people with problems caused by shitty cis people. I genuinely think 90% of cis breeders hate their trans kids in some way and actively make their lives harder, even the lib 'accepting' ones. I'm like 60% of the way to thinking 'yeah I'm gonna be a terrible slumlord for cis people so I can make trans people live better lives, I'll house them for free by taking money from the cis by being an exploitative landlord'. I have the possibility of actually doing this. I doubt we're having a revolution, so like... isn't this an equalizer? There's also the fact that trans people basically have no familial support, being a landlord exploiting cis people would mean we are forcing society to actually support those without it. I could see alternative arguments, like maybe if you have access to a lot of housing you could just make cheap housing for trans people and that would foster a whole community rather than having a lot of depressed cis people slaving away for a handful of homeless trans people, idk. You'd probably have to deal with anti-discrimination laws with that scheme, whereas giving housing away for free to trans people can be contractless.
Obviously I'm a communist through and through, but why should I care about others outside the community when many cis people clearly aren't in the position materially to even begin to think about communism, let alone trans inclusive communism? Talking to them won't work either when they see you as a freak from the start.
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.