I think I’m reverting a bit into some misanthropic and nihilistic tendencies, but at this point I feel like I don’t even care about bad things happening to cis people. Everything feels worse for trans people, and I spend a lot of time helping other trans people with problems caused by shitty cis people. I genuinely think 90% of cis breeders hate their trans kids in some way and actively make their lives harder, even the lib ‘accepting’ ones. I’m like 60% of the way to thinking ‘yeah I’m gonna be a terrible slumlord for cis people so I can make trans people live better lives, I’ll house them for free by taking money from the cis by being an exploitative landlord’. I have the possibility of actually doing this. I doubt we’re having a revolution, so like… isn’t this an equalizer? There’s also the fact that trans people basically have no familial support, being a landlord exploiting cis people would mean we are forcing society to actually support those without it. I could see alternative arguments, like maybe if you have access to a lot of housing you could just make cheap housing for trans people and that would foster a whole community rather than having a lot of depressed cis people slaving away for a handful of homeless trans people, idk. You’d probably have to deal with anti-discrimination laws with that scheme, whereas giving housing away for free to trans people can be contractless.
Obviously I’m a communist through and through, but why should I care about others outside the community when many cis people clearly aren’t in the position materially to even begin to think about communism, let alone trans inclusive communism? Talking to them won’t work either when they see you as a freak from the start.
using this logic, why should we care about anyone in the imperial core
Pretty good logic, but what can I say trans people are simply more important than cis people to me. Doesn’t matter their country, but the reality is its much easier to deal with things in person than online which is what helping trans people in the global south would entail.
Trans people in the global north have on average much much greater access to healthcare and transition support than in the global south. The struggles are not the same. What I’m trying to tell you is that your logic is shit because you’re just trying to do oppression Olympics.
The reality on the ground here is there are no allies helping people, no vanguard, nothing. We tried to organize, including working with local unions, but nothing worked. If you have any suggestions beyond “do revolution” or “drown out the trans people dying with good thoughts and not trying to expand a commune” I’m all ears.
I don’t know you’re specific reality on the ground. I can’t help you. Do anything you want. But you don’t have to whine about cis people while you do it.