/b/ - Siberia

Since /b/ is now actually /tttt/ I'm giving in just to spite you faggots. Most of you suck at this shit and if you're going to make a trans thread you might as well put some fucking effort into the OP. I genuinely hope that the next trans thread (and you know that there will be more) has more brain cells than it has posts. Also I just really want someone to respond to me, I wasn't given enough attention as a child sorry. So please, take some time to read and/or tear apart my blog post.

Gender and sex are seperate concepts despite the material origins of the latter.
Gender only materially exists insofar as the sexes can be assigned certain roles for their physiological ability in relationship to the needs of their society. A male is strong and hunts or does difficult labour, but most people don't hunt anymore and difficult labour is becoming obsolete. The more vulnerable female needs protection and focuses on birthing and raising her offspring, but that vulnerability shrinks in severity as daily life becomes safer, and her duties become obsolete along with it. The material origins of gender will be abolished when the need for physiological differences between men and women are overcome, and from there it's just a matter of ideology.
Why is gender seperate from sex? The reason why I say "gender" and not "sex roles" is because such "sex roles" would have to be fluid and open to modification. If a large percentage men in given a society are absent or dead, the remaining women have to take up their roles, and vice-versa (within reason). There is plenty of evidence for this throughout human history, but I must repeat once again that such roles are slowly becoming subverted as such socially necessary physiological differences are being rendered obsolete by technological advancement.
In the far future, assuming that our mastery of biology allows us to alter our forms in novel ways, the same will happen to sex and even our to our definition of humanity. But let's put that aside for now.

The conflation of gender and sex confounds our method of dealing with trans identity politics.
I refuse to refer to all trans people as transgender. Why? Simply put, there are some cases of trans people for whom sex reassignment surgery benefits them, and likewise there are some for whom it harms them. I will differentiate from these two categories by using the terms transsexual and transgender.
Transsexual people are those who believe that their assigned sex does not correspond to their real sex. Why they believe this should not be our concern. The most successful treatment for these people is often to help them transition into their desired sex. For many of them, doing so is a milestone in overcoming a lifelong struggle. We should avoid mislabing transsexual people as transgender.
Transgender people are those who believe that their assigned gender does not correspond to their real gender. But the problem here is obvious: what is their "real" gender? Is it the gender that most corresponds to their physiology? Perhaps in the past this would be acceptable, and we could arguably justify treating them the same was as transsexuals, but as gender becomes less and less based on socially necessary physiological differences, this explanation becomes more and more dubious. The "real" gender of a transgender person is ultimately whatever they want to believe, because gender is no longer a strictly material phenomenon. If this is the case, then I claim that sex reassignment surgery (and possibly even hormone treatment?) will likely harm them more than it will help them.
This distinction is critically important if we are to adequately critique transgender ideology without harming transsexuals in the process.

Trans identity politics is often a distraction cynically used by political elites.
It is estimated that under 1% of the population of adults in the United States are trans, and this figure might be underreported. Regardless, let's just consider that fact in relation to how often trans issues are discussed. Even if trans people are the most margininalized group in society, they are still likely to be little more than a million people in a country of 300+ million. Does this mean that we should dismiss trans issues? Of course not. But doesn't it seem a little odd that discussions on trans issues are growing increasingly more prevalent in not only left-wing political groups, but on Twitter, 4chan, YouTube, mainstream political/media circles, etc. in general?
Is there a conspiracy here? Not necissarily. This is a conspiracy in the same sense that the U.S. government capitalizing on 9/11 by invading Iraq was a conspiracy; you don't have to create an elaborate plan with thousands of co-conspirators to orchestrate a terrorist attack to justify invading a country, when all you have to do is wait for a tragedy to happen and use it accordingly. We should instead look for these "conspiracies of opportunism" rather than conspiracies in the traditional sense.
The "conspiracy" here emerges from the knowledge of trans issues in the first place. The internet allows these people to congregate easily and make their voices heard in every space they inhabit. Left-liberals found their opportunity within another marginalized group to fetishize and siezed upon it. Right-liberals found their opportunity within another marginalized group to persecute and siezed upon it. As communists, we should neither fetishize nor persecute these people, for by doing so we play on the liberal's battleground of culture conflicts. Rather, we should simply accept them as they, are and refocus our efforts on spreading class consciousness and assisting the working majority with their fight in the battle for democracy.

Short-term solutions to the simpler concerns of trans people are matters of common decency.
When presented with the problems of bathrooms and pronouns, we need not delve too deep into theoretical debates. All that is needed for such concerns of daily life is a stance of common sense and decency, one that the average citizen already adheres to yet might find difficult to adapt in such unusual circumstances. How to deal with bathrooms? Simply advocate for a third toilet not specific to any sex or gender. How to deal with pronouns? Simply point out that everyone has their oddities and quirks that one might need to adapt to, and whether or not you choose to respect those quirks reflects upon yourself. But what about misgendering? If a trans person's ego is so fragile that they take strong offense to an unintentional misgendering, then they have problems that go beyond their gender identity, and such equally applies negative reactions to mildly offensive jokes or the curiosity of the unknowing. Likewise, if a person consistently misgenders, prods or probes too far even when asked not to, then they should be treated as any other rude and inconsiderate person would.
If my arguments strike you as banal and obvious, good! These are psychosocial concerns of politeness and respect that varies from person to person (read: normies), and we can cultivate such excellence by promoting strong moral leadership and an attitude of universal sympathy.

Trans people are people.
Human beings are not defined by their identities, they are defined by their actions. A trans person is not someone we should infantilize or dehumanize in any way. We should be able to point out the stupidity or the brilliance of a trans person like we would any other. We should be able to critique trans ideology like we would any other. We must avoid the temptation to attach any such praise or criticism to the identity of a specific trans person, for by doing that we dehumanize them by reducing them to nothing more than an ideal. Our goal shouldn't be to cater to or alienate trans people, but to treat them as nothing more or less than real, flawed, flesh and blood people.

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