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Trans people are facing a global attack on their rights and on their lives, and it is up to us to resist it. [Thread]
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On June 12th, Trump repealed a 2016 ruling which interpreted the ban on sex discrimination in section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act as including discrimination on the grounds of gender. In doing so, he has confirmed the legality of medical discrimination against trans people.
On the 14th, it was leaked that the Tories are scrapping plans to reform the Gender Recognition Act. These reforms would have ended the transphobic policy of requiring a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria to change one’s legal gender, and replaced it with self-identification.
It is no coincidence that these attacks have occurred during Pride Month - the former on the 4th anniversary of a mass shooting at the LGBT+ nightclub Pulse, in which 49 people were murdered. This consciously signals an intent to increase state violence against LGBT+ people.
Attacks on LGBT+ people, and trans people in particular, stem from the requirement of capital to preserve patriarchal society, the nuclear family, and the binary gender system upon which gendered division of labour rests. In this way, they are also attacks on all women.
That these attacks are occurring during a period of capitalist crisis, and a swelling revolutionary class consciousness, particularly amongst the Black proletariat, is also no accident. Put plainly: these policies are expressions of a creeping fascism.
Fascism is the reaction of capitalism in decay, and we must fight it wherever it rears its ugly head. We must draw the struggles of all oppressed people into a united revolutionary front, driven at its core by the old trade union slogan: “An injury to one is an injury to all!”
To our trans siblings, particularly our Black trans siblings, we say this: your struggle is ours. We will fight alongside you. We have a world to win.
