This is not how solidarity works. Get out of your reactionary mindset

What is your goal in posting this? To simply paint working class people as largely anti-trans and then say you don’t support their rights because of that? If they don’t support your rights and you don’t support their rights I hate to break it to you, but you are no better than they are. Both you, and them, are operating from a position of individualistic ignorance and selfishness. Only caring about issues that directly effect you without realizing EVERYTHING effects you because we all have to live on the same planet. Working class people being undereducated and overworked and struggling to survive is exactly why so many of them fall for anti-trans propaganda. The very propaganda that is made by the RICH by the way. The sort of mindset your showing now is playing exactly into the hands of the rich who made that propaganda too. They want us divided. Fighting amongst ourselves. They don’t want intersectional solidarity. But you do you I guess.

From no solidarity with immigrants, to no solidarity with minorities, to no solidarity with the working class. How surprising.

Is solidarity with people who don’t have solidarity with you difficult? Yes. Are you actually putting in any effort towards showing people you ever even tried to have solidarity with them, though? It sounds far more like you’ve written off the possibility long ago, and I don’t see how that would ever help shift someone else’s view to understand that trans people aren’t their enemies.

I don’t think everyone can put in that work themselves, but if you aren’t able to, you can at least not be a roadblock. Seems like you wrote off the possibility of having solidarity, though.

Many trans issues are labour and working class issues. Either you’re rich or you’re shooting yourself in the foot.

The working class becomes more enlightened socially when it has less of its own survival to worry about, it becomes more ignorant socially when it is struggling to survive. This occurs for a few reasons, firstly they feel like their need to put food on the table and pay rent is a higher need than someone’s sexuality or gender issues and secondly because they feel their issues are competing for air in the room vs other issues.

If total solidarity is too much for you then just look at it in a purely selfish way, improving the working class’ lives is a necessary action towards improving lgbt lives by removing these barriers.

Transitioning hasn’t really changed my political beliefs, but it has made me more scared of people, so I certainly reach out to people less than I otherwise would be because of it, which means my real-world actions unfortunately don’t really align with those beliefs. I see that as my shortcoming though: it’s an area I need to improve on. It’s fine to be resentful, but radicalism should include a desire to uplift the lives of even shitty people imo.

Why I left the left: apolitical working people don’t respect me enough.

Interesting take, but you do you.

I’m not mad at rabid dogs for being violent, I don’t need to like or respect anyone to still desire the liberation of all people from the dehumanizing capitalist world we’re in.

This is not it comrade. You don’t try to change society because everyone is nice, you try because everyone deserves not to be brutalised and yolked to the whims of the bourgeois.

You don’t need to like someone to work on behalf of them, you just have to recognise that they’re just as human as you.

As a side effect, in a world where people are not struggling to survive and having their brains rotted by propaganda trying to make them ok with their degraded and alienated circumstances they tend to be nicer. There will always be rude, cruel, ignorant, or all three at once people in the world; we are not angels we are apes.

The oppressed classes always harbor reactionary ideas, as the prevailing political opinions are heavily influenced by the ruling class that benefits from marginalization. It’s entirely possible that you still harbor unexamined reactionary opinions, it happens to the best of us and we are all in a process of improvement.

To be honest, political work and analysis isn’t really about liking the masses personally, it’s about appreciating their oppression, what causes them to be that way, seeing what potential they had and lost due to false consciousness, and seeing what potential they have to become a force to overturn the current order. Our work is not done in behalf of others, but for the larger cause, and identifying and using uniting factors (mainly but not only class).

You could also think of the role of a vanguard party vs. those in a particular economic relation. Prior to several socialist revolutions, agrarian laborers in non-capitalist relations were essential to the revolution itself, even though they harbored reactionary opinions and sought interests directly opposed to those of workers. They were termed petty bourgeois in this regard by communists. And yet societal transformation leveraged them as an integral part of revolution, and after the hot revolution began the “peacetime” revolution of building society more equitably and in line with industrialization, intentionally undermining those petty bourgeois economic relations. So in this example we can see how large groups of people individually useful in these projects were far out of alignment with communists but joined the cause anyways, that they were made useful, that they were them transformed through economic and other social relations afterwards (and the worst of them were, you know, shot during civil war).

So basically it’s understandable to be like, “I am fighting for the material security of this transphobic piece of shit?” but also don’t forget that overall class struggle is still where we must begin our focus.

I’ve been bitten by stray animals while trying to help them, I don’t let that stop me from helping them. Your feelings are understandable but they do not justify accepting the status quo.

Could it possibly be that your self-esteem only exists because you do not presently need low self-esteem as a survival mechanism, and that what you attribute to working class people being transphobic, is really because your own most immediate needs have already been met, and you don’t feel like struggling more? Material stability tends to deradicalize a lot more effectively than having “strange bedfellows”! You have a really terrible attitude in any case.

When in doubt I fight for my child self. The person who needed help but didn’t get it from anywhere they should have. Who is only here now because they clung to a hope that it would get better eventually.

If I went through what I did, others will. I fight because I had no one to fight for me.

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