In our time, when the bourgeois order has pushed both the market and human relations to their final extremes, we witness a new, refined offspring of the capitalist spirit —
vaginocapitalism.
It is nothing more than a reflection of the old order, where every quality, every body, every gesture is turned into a commodity, and where human closeness is measured as mercilessly as bread on the exchange or the labor of a worker at the machine.
And now, within this market, there emerges a special “caste of the elect,” which has imagined itself as the guardian of a certain natural capital —
femininity as property, a property supposedly secured not by labor, not by spirit, not by participation in the common cause, but by the mere accident of birth.
This caste, proclaiming itself “natural,” behaves as
a petty aristocracy of a new type: it claims an exclusive right to rule over the space of desires, gazes, admiration, and human contact.
And just as the old aristocracy trembled before the bourgeoisie — those “upstarts” who entered their world without lineage but with initiative — so too
do the vaginocapitalists tremble at the mere sight of trans women.
For before them stand those who come not by “right of blood,” but by right of their own will, labor, and self-transformation.
For this caste, it is an intolerable blow: for their supposed superiority reveals itself not as eternal or natural, but as a
social fiction — as conditional as the titles and coats of arms of the old nobility.
To the vaginocapitalist, the trans woman is a revolutionary of the “market of corporeality,” a figure whose very existence calls into question the idea of inherited gender privilege.
She is a “threat” not because she is foreign, but because she
exposes the falseness of the very system upon which vaginocapitalism builds its fragile bastions.
She shows that femininity is not a monopoly, not a commodity, not a form of natural rent, but
a living choice, a path, a movement, which cannot be confined within the boundaries of the market.
That is why the vaginocapitalists rush to erect barricades:
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