the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Nov 11, 2024
The Trump campaign ran ad after ad accusing Kamala Harris of supporting “taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners and illegal aliens.” According to FactCheck.org, exactly two federal prisoners and no immigrant detainees have gotten such surgeries.
But there is a reason the Trump campaign ran it so often.
This whole attack on transgender people reinforces the idea that there is some narrow definition of what it means to be a man, and what it means to be a woman, and everyone has to fit into one of those boxes, as defined by their genitals at birth.
The “woman” box includes doing an enormous amount of unpaid but socially needed labor: taking care of children and the elderly, cooking, and cleaning. It includes smiling at everyone, accepting lower pay without complaint, and defining your worth based on your attractiveness to men.
The “man” box includes doing dangerous jobs—and if necessary, killing and risking your life on the battlefield.
Strange how these definitions just happen to make both women and men more easily exploitable by the capitalist class!