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“There should be more debates on the left about the extent to which policy and legal protections within a capitalist system can ever truly rectify this fundamental need for some people to be marginalized. Arguably, trans inclusion within capitalism will only ever be partial, favouring the white and the middle class among us.”
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.25 off because I’d have liked the chapters to have subheadings when we were going into a new sub-category. Sometimes was reading and had to re-read parts as thought “how did we get here?”
But I learned a lot from this book and will read it again because there’s so much to digest! Thought the end was poignant when Faye said that there’s nothing to say things won’t be rolled back, felt a bit sad reading this given the Supreme Court ruling in the UK recently about what it is to be a woman. Trans rights are absolutely human rights & I hope that reading more books like this will help me be a better and courageous ally.
But I learned a lot from this book and will read it again because there’s so much to digest! Thought the end was poignant when Faye said that there’s nothing to say things won’t be rolled back, felt a bit sad reading this given the Supreme Court ruling in the UK recently about what it is to be a woman. Trans rights are absolutely human rights & I hope that reading more books like this will help me be a better and courageous ally.
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I think that Shon has some naivety that is genuinely sad to read in retrospective 6 years later (her belief that the US is less transphobic that Britain and that Labour is a party that is there for trans people) but she said herself that the book is the product of her time, so this is not a criticism of her not being all-knowing but more a comment on how difficult it is to remain hopeful that trans liberation is possible and on its way when it felt like we were in a better place in last decade than we are in this one.