Transphobia is good for capitalism
Which is why Georgia wants it enshrined in law
Hiii, I went to a really fun comedy show last night! Today I’m sharing my feelings about “The Transphobic Bill” in Georgia’s General Assembly. Onto the news…
News that made me say I don’t know if transphobes have read Marx for Dummies
A bill erasing transgender people has been introduced to so-called Georgia’s General Assembly, proving once again that politicians’ jobs are to make our lives terrible. Politicians get all their legislative ideas from a bucket labeled “tools for oppression”. Every time they feel a group of people who shouldn’t have rights is feeling confident, they pull out ideas from this bucket to ensure this group stays oppressed. This bucket is metaphoric of course.
I do think politicians have a literal bucket in their home where they store all their empathy. You can’t have all that empathy weighing you down when your job is to be a bad person.
The metaphoric bucket I speak of is the white-supremacist-racist-heteropatriarchy that guides all the laws of this country. Oppressing people is the so-called United States’ personality, just like never closing drawers is my personality. The only difference between me and this country is that I’m trying to change, I really am, I promise. The United States isn’t trying to change. It never wants to claim that oppression is the law of the land. Instead the US pretends like oppression is actually freedom!
Which is why the legislators of Georgia have labeled this bill that defines two biological sexes based on “biological” reproductive organs and “remove[s] sexual orientation and gender identity from the state’s criteria for hate crimes” as the Women’s Bill of Rights. This bill should really be called “The Bill of Rights for Those Who Hate Women” but even bigots know that would be bad PR.
I unfortunately read the beginning of this bill because knowing the truth means having to torture yourself. The bill defines a female as an “individual who has, had, will have, or would have, but for a developmental or genetic anomaly or historical accident, the reproductive system that at some point produces, transports, and utilizes eggs for fertilization”. The goal here is to limit womanhood to people who transphobes think are women. This definition reminded me of the one time I was awake during my biology class and I learned that all fetuses have genitalia associated with being “female” after fertilization. Seriously I wasn’t dreaming, it’s the truth.
If these bigots believe that life begins at fertilization, then that means we are all technically female under this bill. At some point all us had the reproductive system that could produce eggs. So those t-shirts saying the future is female may have been right.
I personally want the future to be gender-binary free which is the opposite of what these legislators in Georgia want. A world without gender threatens capitalism because gender is one of the hierarchies capitalism depends on to divide the working class. Which is why these politicians are so obsessed with gender instead of other real problems, like lack of healthcare and having a soul. I told my friends the purpose of transphobic laws is to maintain capitalism. They asked me whether I really think these bigots have read Marx. I don’t know if the bigots have read “Marx for Dummies” but I do know the bigots work for capitalists.
Capitalists know what’s good for them and they use legislators to maintain their interests. That’s why it’s illegal to steal from Whole Foods but it’s good for Whole Foods to steal from its workers. Even though the moral thing to do is use Whole Foods as your personal pantry.
That’s it for the news, but don’t go yet
Read Anarcho-Blackness to learn more about why transphobia is a key tool for maintaining capitalism. I highlighted the following quote from the book. “How we are gendered is a product of how the State and its various apparatus seek to discipline and produce, to coerce and hierarchize different desires, bodies and comportments.”
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