WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, UCL AL #348 - Antipatriarchy, Congress Motion: Identify our enemies and oppose the demands of the trans community (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 During the second congress of the Libertarian Communist Union in 2023,

we voted for a political orientation motion called "For a trans
counter-offensive", available on our website. Here is the third part in
a shortened and reworked version for the newspaper. It aims to provide a
quick overview of French transphobic movements and to detail the demands
of trans activists that we make our own. ---- The actors and actresses
propagating transphobia in France (as elsewhere) belong to all political
currents. There are of course right-wing and far-right parties. Thus
Zemmour creates groups of "vigilant parents" who launch pressure
campaigns against educational establishments[1]

The Republicans are launching a very direct and violent media[2]and
parliamentary[3]offensive. The National Rally does the same by targeting
trans people's access[4]to sport. In addition to the parties,
reactionary groups are being formed specifically on the subject, the
most important of them being the Little Mermaid Observatory, which has
influence at the Ministry of National Education. The arguments of this
political camp repeat the usual clichés: "protection" of children or
even of civilization, affront to the natural or biblical order, and the
endless conspiratorial and anti-Semitic speeches.

But in this fight against trans rights, the far right has support.
"Universalist" liberal feminism is outraged by vocabulary that includes
trans men in reproductive health issues, and denounces the so-called
advantage of trans women in sport. Less subtly, the issue of non-female
spaces (notably public toilets) is invoked to portray trans women as
aggressors. On this point and so many others, this liberal feminism is
joined by the transphobic fringe of radical feminism, increasingly
porous with it, and which insists on the primacy of biology or "primary
socialization" as the source of oppression. patriarchal. Mirroring
aggressive trans women, TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists)
consider trans men as lesbian victims of "transactivists", regardless of
their real sexual orientation and on a logic of misogynistic
infantilization.

Environmentalists are not spared. In addition to naturopathic gurus[5],
we find transphobic tendencies among techno-critical and primitivist
movements, such as Parts and Workforce (PMO)[6]and Deep Green Resistance
(DGR) [7], often more close to ecofascism as to the ecology of struggle.
These groups depict gender transitions as unnatural and stemming from a
transhumanist ideology. All these components link and support each
other, beyond declared political affiliations: transphobia becomes the
common denominator bringing together currents which should nevertheless
oppose. PMO cites members of the Little Mermaid Observatory (OPS), while
libertarian broadcasts give pride of place to transphobic liberal
feminism[8]. This mixture of genres demonstrates the real common basis
behind transphobia: a reactionary and confusing ideology.

Faced with transphobic disinformation, we are acting for better
information about transidentity within society, including better
identification and condemnation of transphobia and the violence it
causes. We fight against discrimination and precariousness of the trans
population.

Many rights to conquer
We campaign for access to care for trans people. This involves stopping
discrimination and medical violence, but also better training for
doctors in the care of trans people and the prescription and monitoring
of their treatments. We are for the real and effective
depsychiatrization of transition pathways, whether within medical
practices or for their reimbursement. We call for a real public health
policy, putting an end to the practices of the multidisciplinary teams
of the ex-SoFECT (extremely psychiatrized, rigid and patriarchal),
correctly responding to the needs of minors as well as adults, and
allowing the provision appropriate treatments. Finally, we demand
reinforced social security, controlled by our class, aware of the needs
of the trans population, and covering all health costs without requiring
mutual insurance or recognition of long-term illness (ALD). We are
fighting the capitalist logic at work in the health system, which
creates medicine at several speeds depending on the means of patients.

We are calling for the simplification of procedures for changing civil
status, so that they are based on a single sworn certificate. We are for
the removal of the sex marker, an archaic symbol of state control over
bodies and families, which exposes people to discrimination. At a
minimum, we request the diversion of the procedure for modifying this
marker. In order to protect trans people from registration and
discrimination, changes to marital status should be entirely
retroactive. We are for trans people's access to medically assisted
procreation (MAP), regardless of their marital status, sexual
orientation or relationship status. We demand automatic recognition of
family ties. We call for guaranteed access for trans people to spaces
dedicated to their gender. We recall that the constraints placed on
women's bodies cause danger and discrimination not only for trans women
but also for cis women, in particular LBTI[9]and racialized[10].

The UCL anti-patriarchy commission

To validate

[1]Robin Korda and Ariane Riou, ""Vigilant parents": how Éric Zemmour
wants to set the school alight", Le Parisien, December 15, 2022.

[2]Mika Alison, "Why are French conservatives so interested in trans
children?», XY Media, December 14, 2021.

[3]Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio, "Proposed law prohibiting practices aimed
at modifying the sexual orientation and gender identity of a person,
first reading in the Senate, amendment no. 3 tabled on text no. 239 of
the law commission", Pub. L. No. 2022-92, December 7, 2021.

[4]Nina Jackowski, "The National Rally will launch an association to
fight against wokism", lejdd.fr, March 24, 2023.

[5]Pauline Bock, "Family planning: anti-trans, "progressive guarantees"
of the reactions", Arrêt sur Images, September 5, 2022.

[6]Collectif Stop Masculinisme, "The masculinist coming out of Pieces
and Labor", Indymedia Grenoble, January 31, 2015.

[7]Savannah, "I'm Not A Gender Zombie and Neither Are You: Rejecting
Anti-Trans Bigotry From Rachel Ivey and Deep Green Resistance,"
Autostraddle, May 20, 2013.

[8]"Jamila and Caroline Granier, Remue Méninges Féministe", Remue
Méninges Féministe Radio Libertaire 89.4, November 15, 2022.

[9]Jasmine Andersson, "Butch Lesbian Opens up about "increasing
Harassment" She Faces When Using the Public Toilets," INews, January 19,
2021.

[10]Daniel Villarreal, "Two more cis Black women banned from Olympics
for their natural testosterone levels", LGBTQ Nation, July 2, 2021.

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