I am asking this because I have seen some posts in this community in solidarity with North Korea. I have heard before that trans people get reassignment surgery paid for them in North Korea but I don’t know if that is true. When I tried googling it most of the stuff that came up said that North Korea was not the best for gay people and it didn’t come up with much for how trans people are treated in North Korea. If you guys have any articles or information sources about the LGBT situation in North Korea could you link them to me, it would be very appreciated.
It hurts to see the anti-LGBT history of Marxist-Leninist states used as wholesale condemnation of a people’s ideology & history. Globally we are in a time right now where acceptance and understanding of gender & sexuality theory is increasing year after year. Do people think that the Marxist-Leninists, the ones with a reputation for being ‘too serious’ and grounded in ‘harsh reality’, would make it their priority to roll back this progress?
It just hurts to see an ideology built fundamentally on progressive social change to benefit the oppressed & exploited put in the liberal ‘permanently bad’ bin. Ah well, us TanKiEs will just have to chug along and keep improving the material conditions of oppressed LGBT workers regardless.
It hurts more to see the lack of LGBT rights be levied against Marxist-Leninists by Anarchists. People who during the American civil war sided with the confederacy. Do you know where the Marxists were then? Signing up to fight in the Union army and writing letters to Lincoln in support of equal rights for blacks. People who didn’t align with the suffrage movement in the US and England. Do you know where Marxists were then? Setting up women’s movements, and using their male privilege to legitimize female voices. Shit, Marxists in the US have been at the forefront of every social movement, including the fight for LGBTQIA+ rights. But no, us “tankies” apparently hate the gays:registered: because they didn’t have rights in a state that died before some (if not most) of us were born.