El Chisme

one of the earliest acts of violence handed out by the growing German fascist movement, was in 1933, when they looted and destroyed the Institute for Sexual Science, burning all of its files and research.

Actually phenomenal point. You really can't divorce this point from an understanding of fascism. I think I probably need to develop my thoughts on this new form of fascism then, because it does seem that by engaging in the reinforcement of gender lines and hostility against the trans people that soften or break them, fascism has a material gain to make. But I think we need to try to understand how this hostility can exist in the context of imperialism and the age of pinkwashing. Now, even though the watered down trans rights that have been conceded by the liberals in the West are not emancipatory, they do at least represent a crack in patriarchal logic. But they also represent a line of attack against Global South countries that have similar patriarchal structures but haven't developed a cultural elite that fancies itself as being the vanguard of trans liberation, and thus can be painted as backward and regressive. So the interesting dialectic for me, is that the fascists more or less concede this line of attack (not entirely, obviously many far right politicians oppose women's rights yet engage in pinkwashing rhetoric about Sharia law being bad for women's rights), and seem less interested in that cultural project of conceding some symbolic and some minimal material benefits to minority groups as a way of wielding a new line of attack against the periphery.

But I definitely think that "class only Marxism" is not enough to actually understand what's going on and it's thoroughly useless at promoting participation from marginalized people.