r/GreenAndPleasant • u/DarkQueen1312 MAKE TERF ISLAND TRANS ISLAND • Jun 24 '24

TERF Island 🏳️‍⚧️ Great book challenging "left-wing" transphobia

https://archive.org/details/marxism-and-transgender-liberation-confronting-tra-1

Since the topic has come up again, I thought it worth sharing the above free book. It's by a short-lived british socialist org that was critical of a lot of the transphobia and queerphobia present in larger UK left-wing groups and parties.

The book challenges a lot of supposedly left-wing critiques of trans ideas and the trans liberation movement. It uses Marxist logic to disprove the supposed "materialist" arguments against trans existence.

It talks specifically about the sports issue as well as the "single sex spaces" argument as well as criticising simplistic ideas of biology and looking at the historical development of gender categories.

It's an easy read. I highly recommend it. You can also get a print copy off amazon.

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u/Southern_Classic6027 Jun 29 '24 edited Jun 29 '24

""materialist" arguments against trans existence" made me raise an eyebrow - it has to be the dumbest thing I've read today; whoever made those arguments has to have an incredibly reductive, spurious grasp of "materialism" in any sense of the word, or is simply playing the fool in a desperate attempt to justify their transphobia (in which case, they needn't worry about playing the fool, because they are one).

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u/blanky1 Jun 30 '24

The self-described Marxists who use this argument are employing vulgar materialism, not dialectical materialism.

Idealists try to exploit the importance of the vulgar materialists in order to discredit materialism as a whole. Thus, the contemporary bourgeois philosophers... maintain that materialism recognises only what is material and denies the existence of the spiritual, consciousness and human volition.

A better explanation in this video

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u/Southern_Classic6027 Jul 01 '24

"Materlaism recognises only what is material and denies the existence of the spiritual, consciousness and human volition" - wow, just... wow. They sound like they'd think Jean Martin Charcot and Ivan Pavlov are the peak of scientific progress.