{"id":21783,"date":"2025-05-14T14:26:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uit-ci.org\/?p=21783"},"modified":"2025-05-14T14:26:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:26:04","slug":"trans-women-are-women-against-transphobia-organise-and-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/trans-women-are-women-against-transphobia-organise-and-fight\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Trans women are women! Against transphobia, organise and fight!"},"content":{"rendered":"
By\u00a0<\/i>Cristina Darriba and Arnau A<\/strong>., from Internationalist Struggle (LI), IWU-FI section in the Spanish State<\/i><\/div>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0On April\u00a016th, the UK Supreme Court ruled that the term \u2018woman<\/i>\u2019, as it appears in the \u2018Equality Act<\/i>\u2019 (a 2010 law to legally protect people from discrimination in the workplace and in wider society, based on nine characteristics: age, disability, race, religion or belief, sex, pregnancy\u00a0and maternity, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and gender reassignment), refers – exclusively – to biological sex. The ruling was pushed for by the reactionary organisation \u2018For Women Scotland<\/i>\u2019, whose spokespersons describe trans women as \u00abmen allowed to be women<\/i>\u00ab. This ruling by the British judiciary represents a new attack on the rights of trans people, especially women, by denying their existence and pushing them further into marginalisation.<\/div>\n

Under the guise of \u00abdefending women<\/i>\u00ab, reactionary institutions, as well as\u00a0Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists<\/i>\u00a0(TERF’s<\/i>), use arguments built on fallacies and transphobia. They claim that trans women seek to invade \u2018feminine<\/i>\u2019 spaces or benefit from work quotas. Nothing could be further from the truth: studies show that transgender people are precisely those who face the greatest barriers to accessing the labour market, occupy the most precarious jobs, and suffer high levels of social exclusion. Most are even forced to hide their identity for fear of harassment and discrimination.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The \u00aberasure of women<\/i>\u00bb discourse, present internationally, directly targets all sexual and gender minorities, as well as all women who do not fit into their ideals of femininity. Although they call themselves \u2018feminists<\/i>\u2019 and say they are \u2018left-wing<\/i>\u2019, these organisations ultimately defend the same heteronormative norms that the far-right extols. The\u00a0PSOE<\/i>\u00a0(Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party<\/i>) ended up giving in to the sector that opposed the ‘Trans Law’ (‘Ley Trans<\/i>‘ – a 2023 law that permits gender self-identification in Spain, allowing individuals to change their legal sex), and removed the\u00a0Q<\/i>\u00a0from the\u00a0LGBTQIA+<\/i>\u00a0acronym. Similarly, the\u00a0Feminist Party of Spain\u00a0<\/i>(PFE<\/i>), led by Lidia Falc\u00f3n, focuses its activity solely and exclusively on campaigns that criminalise trans women.
\nThis reactionary agenda is driven by the far-right, but supported by institutions and the media. Figures such as Milei or Trump pathologize dissent, expel trans people from public office, and openly call for fighting \u2018gender ideology<\/i>\u2019 and the \u2018Woke Agenda<\/i>\u2019. In Europe, governments such as Hungary’s ban Pride demonstrations outright, to the silence and inaction of supposedly progressive parties.
\nEven in spaces considered representative for LGBTQIA+ people, such as Eurovision (a TV contest widely followed by LGBTQIA+ people), censorship measures are applied that give in to hate speech. A few weeks ago, performers were banned from showing Queer flags to \u00abavoid political messages<\/i>\u00ab, whilst at the same time the State of Israel is allowed to participate in the midst of its accelerated genocide in Gaza.<\/div>\n

The alignment of the mass media and the political and judicial powers with reactionary discourses has direct and fatal consequences. Social networks become breeding grounds for LGBTIphobic campaigns that encourage violence, and this violence does not remain symbolic: it is retransmitted, normalised, and celebrated, making the aggressors feel unpunished. We cannot forget the murder of Samuel, in A Coru\u00f1a in 2021, or the recent transfeminicide of Sara Millerey in Colombia, tortured and murdered, whilst everything was recorded on video and broadcast on networks. These acts of violence are not isolated events: they are the direct result of the hatred that is promoted by institutions and amplified by the media.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0We must mobilise against this reactionary wave, as like what happened in the UK, against the decision of a retrograde judicial system, or in the streets all over the world, in memory of Sara and in repudiation of all femicides.<\/div>\n

No woman comrade is left behind: in the face of the constant attack on our material conditions and our existence, it is time to organise. Against cisheteropatriarchy and capitalism, let us build the revolutionary party that will allow us to conquer affective, sexual and gender liberation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Cristina Darriba and Arnau A., from Internationalist Struggle (LI), IWU-FI section in the Spanish State \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0On April\u00a016th, the UK Supreme Court ruled that the term \u2018woman\u2019, as it appears in the \u2018Equality Act\u2019 (a 2010 law to legally protect people from discrimination in the workplace and in wider society, based on nine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1002],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21784,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21783\/revisions\/21784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}