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The Family Unit is Transphobic and Must be Abolished, Says Transgender Activist

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Source: Women are Human

UK — . Jules Joanne Gleeson, transgender-identifying historian who focuses on ancient eunuchs for JSTOR Daily, writer at New Socialist and co-author of the soon-to-be-released book Trans Marxism, is fighting to abolish families. The activist insists the family unit is a tool of “transphobes” to decrease the number of “(out) trans people,” and the family can be replaced with “unchecked” queer bonds.

Gleeson, who like many vocal transgender activists advocates abolition of prisons, argues in essay “This Infamous Proposal” that the same abolitionist spirit must be brought to the conversation on families.

For queers (of whatever given flavour), families appear far more often as a primary antagonist. […] Tales of rejection, threats, and abandonment are so commonplace that they have lost their power to leave us truly shaken. […] Lovers have to be concealed, lingo rapidly switched up, awkward encounters avoided or allowed to drag out.
Jules Gleeson, “This Infamous Proposal,” New Socialist

Gleeson once tweeted that the “main reason people detransition is to stay in contract with their family,” citing no sources for the claim.

The activist argues that not even “queer families” can mitigate harm enough to justify continued existence of private households and families. “Family’s role in ensuring capitalist workforces are produced generation after generation in truth never detaches from the disciplinary struggles to snuff out queer development,” the essay laments. “Intuitively, we long for an end to the procession of privatised torment and ineffectual displays of disciplinary force that make one baby queen’s plight seem almost interchangeable with the next.”

To strengthen the call for family abolition, the essay describes family units as “patriarchal relations” and points out that the family results in “most queers being raised by heterosexuals.” On Twitter, the activist added that “family configuration” is “shaped by white supremacy,” “capitalism and systemic racism.”

[W]e have argued for replacing the current convention of upbringings being divvied up between private households […] with structuring processes of direct provision, offering key elements of upbringings – from meeting nutritional needs to literacy – in a systematic and contextually over-arching fashion.
Jules Gleeson, “This Infamous Proposal,” New Socialist

Gleeson calls for the family to be replaced with “unchecked” queer relations:

To abolish the family […] means allowing the relations which already blossom between us to become unchecked. Already, we offer each other prolonged bouts of joy, rarefied skills, and kinds of support that we’re uniquely placed to share. We don’t do this in order to create sturdy forms that will outlast generations, but exactly to enjoy moments of community with our fellow exiles.

Gleeson is not the only transgender activist to suggest that the trans community can serve as substitute for ‘transphobic’ families. In a video created on Mother’s Day, Canadian competitive cyclist and transgender activist Veronica Ivy, who is male and identifies as a woman and has also been known as Rachel McKinnon, advised “trans kids” to swap “unsupportive” parents for a “glitter family.”

A word to the kids, the trans kids whose parents maybe don’t support them as much as we would hope. Unfortunately, this is too common. I want to give you some help, though. I want you to know that it’s okay to walk away from unsupportive or disrespectful, or even abusive, parents. And I want to give you hope that you can find what we call your glitter family. Your queer family. We are out there, and the relationships that we make in our glitter families are just as real, just as meaningful as our blood families.Veronica Ivy, activist formerly known as Rachel McKinnon, Mother’s Day video

The video sparked public concern, which only intensified this January when Ivy’s live-in partner Danny Shawn Daugherty was arrested on charges of Solicitation Of A Minor and Attempted Disseminating Material To A Person Under The Age Of 18.

While family abolition is not a new or rare stance amongst socialists and communists, some members of the public express worry about the move by certain transgender activists to break up families, particularly as it is wed to a fight to abolish the prison system, which many in the trans community decry as a ‘transphobic’ institution.

A woman wondered whether break down of social structures makes children and teens who feel misunderstood and socially isolated more vulnerable to absorbing the gender identity community’s messaging and starting on the pathway to unnecessary medical intervention:

I’ve heard in general that the kids say they don’t feel like they fit in and that they have no friends apart from in the online groups they find and then get asked other questions about their sexuality and personality which then leads to the ‘you must be trans!’ announcement, which the by-then-feeling-understood kid accepts because these people ‘get them’. Would anyone know if they break down teens and young people’s identities (family, community, religion, school, sport, etc) before ‘love bombing’ them like cults do?

In 2018, transgender activists in the US began lobbying the government to seize minors from the homes of parents who refuse their gender dysphoric children’s demands for medical intervention. The first child seized was a 17-year-old in Ohio whose parents refused to call her by the masculine name she chose or start her on cross-sex hormones.

Similarly, authorities in Australia seized a teen from her parents’ home in 2019 after they refused to allow her to take testosterone.

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