Communists that believe "gender freedoms" are bourgeoisie decadence

So it seems to me that across many spaces there is a tendency to water down queer and gender issues into the cynical commercialism that finance capitalists have pushed for. Among communists I see this with what people in Donbas have said, what a person from the DPRK has said to a Chinese interviewer, and it is also found in the west. Also in sections of the Indigenous community oftentimes elders will claim that (ironically) white people made up Two-Spirit people, all despite evidence to the contrary.

We also see characters like Putin rallying around this idea that the west is obsessed with "gender freedoms" despite the very obvious coordinated crackdowns against these supposed "freedoms" in the west.

When I hear people make these claims I am baffled because I am certain that colonialism has damaged and (attempted to) erase Indigenous gender expressions around the world. To say that queer issues can be boiled down to liberalism is clearly false and likley has its root in colonialism. Yet communists and other forces that are otherwise opposed to the financial imperialist system are not unified on this issue.

It does seem clear that the west tries to weaponize human rights to justify war and to justify investments. It also demonizes and makes sure to show when its enemies show these sentiments. But this reactionary strain of communism has failed to explain how the bourgeoisie apparently invented trans people without simply criticising their least favorite liberal feminist or gender theorist (perhaps Judith Butler). But gender is dynamic and if it has been molded by capital in this way then it should be demonstrable beyond criticisms of a single theorist or a single field.

I myself am absolutely no expert on gender or queer theory. Im straight and grew up in a reactionary home. Im hoping people here can give insight on how to address these issues that exist among communists. I think we can tallow the west to use human rights to further colonize the world and gender issues accross the world probably manifest differently and that should be understood and respectes. Simultaneously, we cant allow this erroneous view that the western bourgeoisie is not only the protector of gender rights, but its progenitor.

Anyways, I am hoping for some discussion on this.

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I'd remind these communists that a lot of the leaders of the transgender movement in the US were or ended up communists, and that 'gay rights' didn't just cynically materialize in the US birthed from decadance- they were fought for against state violence. The liberals co-opted and assimilated the movement and communists should be pointing to that example for the desperate need for radical organizing. "gay marriage" and participating in the military is explicitly not what radical queers wanted, and rainbow capitalism is not the movement.

Stonewall was a riot in one of the few mob-run gay bars that trans girls frequented. Police violence has been a constant feature of trans life and continues to be an issue to this day- unless you're rich and white enough. Does that sound like bourgeois decadence or is there a class distinction at work? Queers who assimilate and say the right things get a seat at the table, the rest of us absolutely are not have our voices expressed by the actions of pretty much any western governments.

I have a lot of complaints about the west using trans people as a football to score points with a facade of tolerance. It really takes refusing to play their game.

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Here is my take on it. I say this ESPECIALLY to communists.

I didn't choose my orientation. My wife didnt choose their gender.

First the communists have to understand that.

Understand also:

If ANY communist intends violence on me, my wife, our queer friends. Well it's simple. I can take you to Hell with me; just like I would with any fascist.

Do not make my identity and my queer friends and comrades the problem; and there wont be a problem.

This doesnt have to be complicated. I dont have the power to turn your kids gay or trans.

But come to my doorstep with violence in your heart and aggressive intent and I will do everything in my power that you dont survive it.

Im not interested in being your landlord or some blood soaked drone pilot that levels your neighborhood. Ill appreciate communists stop accusing me of having capitalist ambitions because im not straight.

And dont ask me to get over it when we got reactionary white supremacists who wants people like me dead and are ACTIVE in that pursuit far more apparent and carries special attention in the minds of violent monsters. I dont need "bourgoisie decadence" accusations thrown at folks like me. Cool your jets. The fascists already want me dead; they dont need your help.

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