Struggle informs theory, and theory in turn counsels action. That’s why those at the summits of power do everything that can to ridicule and condemn and censor these ideas.
That queer theory broadly shares Western Marxist proclivities towards pessimism and theoreticism is exemplified in its treatment of categories such as normativity, the universal, the bodily, the virtual, and science. Trans people’s experience impels us to seek further afield for a theory adequate to our situation, rejecting the chauvinist anticommunism that other leftists take for granted, and discovering underappreciated benefits to “sympathizing with the monster.” From this deparochialized perspective, it makes as little sense for a Marxist-Leninist to be transphobic as it does for a trans person to be anticommunist.
-Leslie Feinberg
Works by Leslie Feinberg:
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
Transgender Warriors
Lavender & Red
Transgender Liberation: A Marxist View
-Nia Frome
The Problem of Recognition in Transitional States, or Sympathy for the Monster