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I've been noticing a trend with certain comrades, where such comrades (particularly those who are cisgender) are supportive of transgender people, yet their analysis of the woman question didn't change since the 1960s.
Gender studies; the separation of sex and gender; Gender Identity and Expression; these are all terms coined by liberal theorists, yet I use them all the time. Am I a postmodernist, since I abstract gender away from sex? Are they synonyms? And if they are, why do they need to be? These questions ponder my mind, as I try to reconcile that women's oppression exists while understanding that I am still assigned male at birth. Maybe I am one who oppresses women after all, since I am not "born" a woman.
These are all thoughts I have within myself, and within the current of society I am in, which oppresses trans people, both trans women and trans men. A common thought within marxists (and radical feminists too) is that not only gender and sex are synonyms, but the abolition of sex is necessary, and consequently the abolition of gender too. Gender abolitionists believe that gender oppression is the root of cause of oppression. That the sexual/gendered division of labour made the formation of exploitation and thus the formation of class society. This sentiment is shared by radical feminists as well as some marxists, despite their antagonistic nature between each other. This is not only a sentiment shared within cisgender people, but transgender people too, making this question harder to analyse.
I will consider this 'gender abolition', see how they interpret gender, sex, and postmodernist terms, to see if whether or not it is indeed transphobic.