to be fucking honest i don't know if years of transfeminism have lead to anything genuinely useful for the average tranny on the street; the "legitimization" (legibilization, state capture of systems of trans care, official state propaganda in support of transitioners etc) of transsexuality was a side effect of the post-great-recession wave of lib success and considered more a natural outgrowth of the granting of gay rights etc than anything specific to transsexualism or the work of transfeminists. Trans rights in our current system are/were the high water mark of neoliberalism with a human face -- things granted to individuals not out of respect for autonomy, gender or bodily, but out of a need to reterritorialize this group of people less for their own sake than for enclosing humanity within the neolib ekumen.

perhaps some good work was done with regard to consciousness raising of trans women and to education of such issues but that is buried under the sheer amount of marxist flavoured hopium/copium anesthetic gas most brandname transfeminists huff and spread to their marks. the average unhinged twitter addict spewing bits about enjoying their new tits and girlcocks and tumblr users etc writing about their experiences and people like Nyx writing things that are way way outside the overton window of normal transfeminism have done more for Jenny Q. Tranny than all of these wordpress/movable type/substack/livejournal etc types bloviating to hell and back about mostly internet drama and other shit that ultimately does not get down to the questions that I, as a sanity-challenged, deformed-joint-enjoying, apparently somehow elder tranny have, such as "hey what are we gonna do about surviving the coming tide of fascism in ways that don't involved just running to whatever country decides to be a hugbox for us" or "how can we keep hrt etc going if we have to deal with more supply shocks bc of industrial society finally dying?" or "hey how can we figure out actually effective ways of living in community, sharing resources etc that don't replicate the mistakes of past attempts?" instead of shit like endless metacommenary on the latest problematic post someone made or the latest transphobic shit some cissie said that we have to pretend to be genuinely shocked and angry about even tho' frankly you're a moron if you expect them to do anything more than the bare minimum.

i think this is definitely a problem of Anglos being Anglos (anglia delenda est) /Global Northerners being Global Northerners to a great extent and having a mystified belief in enlightenment institutions etc but ffs we can do better

@risperdoll because the actual solution to global transphobia is to build an anti-transphobia bloc and this would inconvenience marxists a bit

@risperdoll libs now say 'people with female socialisation' instead of 'people assigned female at birth', isn't that a huge success

@casinofem maybe i'm just a huge pessimist but i think transphobia like anti-semitism is something that there is no permanent solution for but an eternal struggle and instead of trying to fight it head-on at this point from a position of great weakness what is needed most rn is the solidification and concrete growth and development of the transfem community with an understanding of ourselves as being a permanent insurrectionary/insurgent class

@risperdoll I think trans women just existing and being charismatic and clever and cool and nuanced people does the most for transfeminism, more than any theorist inside or outside the window.

Theres nothing anti-marxist about bloc revolts. The bruimeire illustrates pretty well that thats a necessary process point and so does even more basic understanding of the locomotions of history. Panthers and the cuban revolt also depict a pretty clear reference point for that.

The only way a marxist would be afraid of bloc revolts is if they thought the main function of that force was lumpen. Naturally, that marxist would fail in everything they would try to achieve.

The cross-paranoia that LGBT people are primarily lumpen and that marxists can not be trusted because they hate us for being 'lumpen'... is a specific and really stupid form of liberal propaganda I try to push back on and like, no offense to what is being said in general here im sure it is very cathartic for everyone. For me issues like 'the left' becoming far too linguistically deceptive terminology and the 'lumpen' myth character, are must more pressing matters than the underclasses simply not doing enough to free themselves of their own chains. We have been trained by the liberals to see communists by design as just another type of deceptive politician. This is not a rational function but a result of literal decades of anti-communist hollywood action movies painting them as the 'enemy people'.

At the same time the fact that there are loose actors in a movement hijacking the name of something to try and enact deceptively selfish goals (in both transfeminism and marxism) is actually a sign of their prominence in general. Everything kind of sucks but thats a nessecary step for the consciousness raising process.

@risperdoll the eternal anglo brain is entering the fields of discourse as if the right words spoken will unbind us from our conditions. we need a transfeminism grounded in practical everyday matters as compelling in it's ability to help sisters survive as it is in its diagnostic of where we are headed amidst the collapsing civilization. it's annoying how psyopped everything is to the point that transmisogyny theory becomes the critical tool attempting to split open the cracks in leftist organisational cultures that would prefer to chew us up, getting a taste of our capacity for ideological reproduction before spitting us out

@risperdoll i don't think anything you're saying here is wrong, but i also think that one way people facilitate the destruction of identity in the contemporary world is by conflating the genring of the identity with the being of the identity.

what i'm trying to say is there are a great many "quiet" people whose existence is critical substance to the processes of performance that you highlight as good, and it is important that we lift up both as necessarily entangled, part of the same identity, not a "both" at all.

cause like, look, both your contingents you talk about? they're both loud: they're both performing the thing they're about for some externality.

that's exactly what you say *cannot* be the definition, in your own reply <3

@risperdoll yeah I think Malcolm X Black nationalism for trans people is probably the answer

@casinofem @risperdoll It's a tangent but from the perspective of an Indigenous trans person, having an identity that is the identity and not just a measure of difference against other identities is indeed important.

because, well, that's what having an identity is, and the other thing is what whiteness is lol.