1) I DEMAND #transrights . Instead, tragically we have trans rights conflated with a ‘right’ to minimise or obliterate the reality of biological sex instead of a fight for equality, freedom from violence & discrimination, to proper services & a real fight vs systemic transphobia
2) Instead of targeting forces reproducing/policing the gender role oppression that underpins transphobia (clue-it isn’t feminists) we’re in effect told there’s a ‘right’ to throw biological science into the trash and remove entirely from women the right to define their own sex.
3) In practice there’s also by virtue of the demonisation, harassment & marginalisation of women with a shred of independence from the priorities of this campaign, a de facto removal of a legitimate, long established right as a sex to organise their own defence against sexism.
4) History will indeed be a savage judge of those who undermine women’s rights & simultaneously, the basis for a real fight against transphobia & for equality. Tied as it is to the overthrow of gender roles, that will only be possible in voluntary unity and solidarity with women.
5) It will certainly never come from a marriage forced upon women without their consent. No, the inherent sexism of the self identity campaign is not in my name as a proud transwoman. Socialists must recognise that there are TWO oppressed groups involved here.
6) Trans peoples interests will be far better served by a debate which seeks to value BOTH groups equally without extinguishing anyone’s autonomous rights & which seeks consent for access to women’s spaces, NOT in effect telling women to shut up & submit or be abused as bigots.
7). Women & trans people could be huge & powerful mutual allies fighting our oppression but the self-ID campaign is entrenching a permanent war with women. It’s incapable of building the unity & mutual respect which underpins the lifeblood of our movement, democracy & solidarity
