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I mean, I’m a man with a dick, stubble and XY chromosomes, and I’m forced to be in the women’s changing rooms and bathrooms because of the laws that conservatives passed, but alright I guess.
Everything about my body says “male”, all the way down to my chromosomes, but that doesn’t matter in the eyes of these laws because I used to have a vagina.
I guess you’re in favor of that, though?
Absolutely not. Did I say I thought thought that trans people should be excluded from bathrooms? Or did I say that the working class doesn’t like when trans people use their bathrooms?
When you say “we should do what the working class wants” and “the working class doesn’t want trans people to use bathrooms” it’s easy to extrapolate that you mean “we shouldn’t let trans people use bathrooms”.
Ah good point. I can see that now. Well no I don’t hold that view.
To explain myself I’m very critical of current progressive “orthodoxy” because it tries to pass itself as populist when it is in fact technocratic. The end result is that it looks like a very dishonest movement. My view is that the progressive movement needs to come to terms with the fact that it is technocratic, and that it cannot ever be populist if it retains its current ideology. This also means it won’t win elections in the near future.
On the other hand if it wants to win elections it needs to become more of a socialist workers movement but that will mean compromise in the trans right movement because the vast majority of transphobic people are of the working class.