DoomsdaysCW<p>From 2017, but still very relevant!</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Crimethinc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crimethinc</span></a>: From <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Inclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Inclusion</span></a> to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a> - Neither Trump’s Trans Ban nor Assimilation, but Total Liberation</p><p>2017-07-27 </p><p>[Excerpt]: "What’s radical about trans students contesting bathroom and gender assignment is the possibilities this opens for all students to contest <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authority</span></a>. If we don’t accept their rules regarding which toilets to use, why should we accept the legitimacy of the system that functions as a school-to-prison pipeline? While we support anything that can reduce the misery of trans kids, we also recognize that trans-inclusive bathroom policies are a safety valve intended to divert student resistance and to bolster the legitimacy of a failing public school system. As with marriage and the military, trans liberation in schools isn’t just a question of easing our inclusion into them. It would demand something more like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dismantling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dismantling</span></a> them altogether.</p><p>"It’s strategic for defenders of the status quo to re-center the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LGBT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBT</span></a> rights debate around trans people in the military at this moment. As <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genderqueer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genderqueer</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NonBinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NonBinary</span></a> communities are appearing in mass media and popular consciousness in unprecedented numbers, an optimist might speculate that US gender relations could come up for renegotiation—along with all the institutions they undergird. What better way to protect those relations and institutions than by reducing the scope of the discussion to the most reactionary formulation possible: integration into the military?</p><p>"It’s better for both liberals and conservatives that we stop talking about radically <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/reconfiguring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reconfiguring</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HealthCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthCare</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sexuality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sexuality</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a>, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a>, and numerous other social institutions shot through with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/patriarchal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>patriarchal</span></a> norms."</p><p><a href="https://crimethinc.com/2017/07/27/from-inclusion-to-resistance-neither-trumps-trans-ban-nor-assimilation-but-liberation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">crimethinc.com/2017/07/27/from</span><span class="invisible">-inclusion-to-resistance-neither-trumps-trans-ban-nor-assimilation-but-liberation</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadicalResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadicalResistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransgenderRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransgenderRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SmashThePatriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmashThePatriarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransRightsAreHumanRights</span></a></p>