Leslie Feinberg helped change the way we talk about trans identity.
Ze served as editor of the political prisoners page for 15 years and was promoted to managing editor in 1995.
At the time, feminism and Marxism had already begun to intersect, with many feminists identifying the lack of gender analysis in Marx’s theories. Feminists argued that women’s domestic labor and childbearing responsibilities were not only devalued in a capitalist system, but also enabled men to work outside the home and take part in the capitalist chain of production.
” making hir the first theorist to advance a Marxist theory of transgender liberation. The pamphlet gave a historical explanation for how the oppression of non-cisgendered people results from a capitalist society that requires clearly defined gender categories in order to produce capital. As a result, any gender expression that did not align with the “norm” was highly stigmatized.
Feinberg’s pamphlet emerged against the backdrop of cultural conversations around de-medicalizing trans identity. The work breathed life into the trans experience by providing historical evidence for the existence of trans identity dating back thousands of years, and challenged the language used to describe transness. Feinberg wrote:
There are other words used to express the wide range of "gender outlaws": transvestites, stone butches, androgynes, diesel dykes or berdache - a European colonialist term. We didn't choose these words. They don't fit us. It's hard to fight an oppression without a name connoting pride, a language that honors us...Transgendered people are demanding the right to choose our own self-definitions.
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