Many states in the U.S. have 'proof of surgery' requirements before they will legally recognize people's trans people's gender identity: https://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/identity_document_laws
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A surprisingly large number of countries: https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2017/09/01/why-transgender-people-are-being-sterilised-in-some-european-countries (paywall jumping archive link: https://archive.is/K336g)
Switzerland, Greece and 18 other, mostly eastern European, countries have a final hurdle: sterilisation.
Surgery is not the end goal for all trans people, and even if it were, requiring that it be completed before they can have their gender identity legally recognised is unnecessary and unhelpful.
Can't wait till the NFL has a minute of silence for the thousands of Palestinians killed by Israel's military campaign this week... 👶... 🧓... 💀... 🪦... 🪨... ...
I was thinking that would come under 'prefiguration of new institutions' (although actually it permeates all aspects), but you are right to name it explicitly, comrade 🖤
That's a matter of some debate... 😆
For my part, I'd say direct action and prefiguration of new institutions are good places to start. We of course need to educate people in various ways - in addition to direct action and prefiguration, which are educational in their own right. I also think we need to engage with art and culture to build consciousness and expand popular imagination of what's possible.
We need to understand and dismantle the systems that produce them.
130 years since the survivors of the Haymarket prosecutions were pardoned, and the U.S. is still finding ways to prosecute people just for being anarchists.
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