Not a requirement, just a suggestion. I'll even include a link so y'all don't have to excessively move your thumbs to search for it: https://www.workers.org/book/transgender-liberation-a-movement-whose-time-has-come/
You're welcome. Read up, liberals. ❤️🥰
EDIT: As pointed out by /u/therivercass, please note that this pamphlet is from before our contemporary understanding of gender identity and so it mixes transgender people, as we understand them today, with the gender non-conforming. In the process, it calls transgender men “transgender women” and vice versa for transgender women. I understand that this could be uncomfortable for some, but despite that, it is still a very important and crucial read as it gives a brief, yet informative, overview of the historical trials and tribulations that our people have faced and continue to struggle with under patriarchal, cis-heteronormative capitalism.
interesting, hadn't read this but it's thesis was one I'd actually heard a version of from Caliban and the Witch, on the emergence of patriarchy from the birth of capitalism.
warning for trans folx picking this up: the pamphlet is from before our contemporary understanding of gender identity and so it mixes transgender people, as we understand them today, with the gender non-conforming. in the process, it calls trans men "transgender women" and vice versa for trans women.
this is not to say you shouldn't read it - you absolutely should.
While there are important differences, I wonder how useful it is to create such a divide between trans and gnc political issues anyway. Materially we face a lot of the same struggles, and we would work better united. I think the medicalization of trans identity is the big force separating us from gnc people. It's the same way where intersex people are often explicitly welcome at trans groups irl. Trans rights groups from ~10 years ago frequently included gender nonconforming people in their educational material too.
In butch lesbian groups, you can find a significant number of cis women talking about being interested in taking testosterone or having top surgery, or already having done these things. By some people's standards that would have them count as more trans than me. I'm nonbinary and undecided on medical transition.
Just my thoughts. As for the reversal of terms for trans men and women I'm partial to how we say things today, it's more accurate. lol
yea, I totally agree and that's one of the things I sat with after reading this essay.
Great point and one I agree with wholeheartedly.
YES. THIS IS A HUGE THING TO NOTE. I STOLE YOUR COMMENT AND PUT IT IN THE BODY OF THE POST AND GAVE YOU CREDIT. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING THIS TO MY ATTENTION. <3
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