>>2392281>UK, Wales and Scotland.A revealing construction.
>>2392296>Which amounts to saying a woman is a woman and a man is a man. This is a very glib way of putting it. Consistently within the top 10 most popular articles on the CPGB-ML website, you will find "The reactionary nightmare of ‘gender fluidity’", which was written in 2019. It has been in the top 10 without one second's break since 2019. There are two ways of reading this: The first is that the proles of the world agree, have seen the light, and are flocking in their hundreds and thousands to join the CPGB-ML and support it. Given that the party remains as irrelevant as it was in 2019, I think we can discount this. The other is that it is distracting from real issues, that the party is utterly worthless and that the one group of people it actually appeals to are a bunch of deluded old culture warriors scrabbling around to leftwash their prejudices.
It's a really fun article, too, because it doesn't actually say much about transgenderism. There's a lot of waffle, some cliche ("can a circle identify as a square???"*), but mostly: a lot of telling on themselves. Lines like
"Not enough working women are involved in our movement. Why is it that all of our YouTube videos have 80 to 90 percent hits from men? Young women don’t think politics has got anything to say to them. They’ve been pushed into this blind dead-end of bourgeois feminism." that reveal that what you've got is a cult of socially conservative old men, whining. The problem is bourgeois feminism, they cry, at a time when the TERF to end all TERFs is a billionaire "feminist". It gets better:
"the black community also … Why aren’t the black community here? They should be!",
"I can tell you there are hundreds, thousands of militant communists in London who will agree with me on pretty much everything – but they will not join our organisation, “because I’m a Turk…", I mean really: when it is not boring it is riotously funny. That's why the CPGB-ML gets a pass while the CPB needs to be destroyed.
2019 puts the article in a fun period, because in 2019 we were still pretending to be a socially liberal society. You could make a superficially credible claim that you were going against a line that was supported by all the big businesses and all the first world governments. Today that isn't true: Today the CPGB-ML's line is Keir Starmer's line, it is the supreme court's line, it is Trump's line. The big American companies are ditching the rainbow flags because the big man doesn't like 'em, and he's got much more say than the pressure
from below that put the flags up in the first place. There is, in fact, a big billionaire conspiracy out there to split the working class: But the billionaires and the aristocrats are by-and-large on the same side as the CPGB-ML. Strange, isn't it?
*As any 3D modeller will tell you, enough triangles can make anything you want.
all of this is a sophist language game. we used to speak of sex change operations. we used to have the societal understanding that what a transsexual does is change their sex. "transsexual" lost to "transgender" in the evolutionary arms race of linguistics because people don't like talking about sex, since it also means fucking. that leads into the sex/gender split as a briefly useful explanatory device, which socially conservative weirdoes then seized on as an opportunity to invent an excuse to imply that when you materially alter your body, no you haven't, actually, because by my definition the words mean something different.