Trans Rights
Five Things We Should Fight For This Pride
This Pride weekend, we remember and celebrate the Stonewall uprising led by trans women of color. Although we have won some concessions, we have so much more to fight for. We must look past all of the trappings of rainbow capitalism — which seek to distract us from the work we still have to do — and understand that our role, like that of our elders before us, is to fight for queer liberation and the end of capitalism.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
June 27, 2021
Marxism, Trans Liberation, and the Social Construction of Gender
A new generation of queer activists are debating: can Marxism be a strategy for trans and queer liberation?
Ezra Brain
June 6, 2021
Against the McDonalds of Pleasure
An interview with Virginia Guitzel, one of the authors of Transgender Marxism, about the situation of trans people in Brazil and the need for Marxism in the queer liberation movement.
Left Voice
June 6, 2021
Marxism and Trans Liberation
It is impossible to achieve trans liberation, or the liberation of any oppressed sector of society within the framework of capitalism. We need a revolution to overthrow it.
Virginia Guitzel
May 28, 2021
The New Culture Wars: Republicans Attack Trans Children to Prop Up Their Electoral Hopes
The recent spate of terrible bills attacking trans rights are part of a larger strategy of the Republicans, who are relaunching the culture wars in an attempt to win back power.
Ezra Brain
April 10, 2021
For the Right to a Trans* Childhood: Arkansas Passes Deadly Anti-Trans* Bill
Arkansas is one of many states that are trying to dangerously restrict that ability of trans* youth to access gender-affirming healthcare. This is just another step in a larger assault on trans* rights as part of the culture wars that Republicans hope will rally their base and bring them back to power.
Ezra Brain
March 30, 2021
States Banning Abortion and Healthcare for Trans* People
States across the U.S. have been increasingly making healthcare policy and law based more in bigotry and control than in science and human rights. Over a dozen states are planning to institute near-complete abortion bans and many are trying to keep young trans* people from accessing transition healthcare.
Signý A.
March 26, 2021
Trans* Liberation is Only Possible If We Overthrow Capitalism
On Transgender Day of Rememberance, let us honor the Trans* lives that have been stolen by a rotten and oppressive system. The only way to ensure true liberation is to end the oppressive system of capitalism.
Ezra Brain
November 20, 2020
Two Trans* Activists in Chile Arrested at Indigenous Protest — Free Lyam and Omar Now!
Last night in Chile, trans* activists Lyam Riveros and Omar Diaz were arrested while at a protest in support of the Mapuche people. To date, we have not been given any information about their whereabouts. We demand their release now!
La Izquierda Diario Chile
August 3, 2020
President Trump Rolls Back Healthcare Discrimination Protections for Transgender People
On the fourth anniversary of the Pulse massacre and in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration announced it would roll back healthcare protections for transgender people. The new rule will allow healthcare and insurance providers to deny medical care and coverage to transgender people.
Nathaniel Flakin
June 15, 2020