Trans Movement is Harmful to Women

Danica won DEM House seat in VA

Many shout out that this trans movement threatens the safety and erases the historical oppression women have suffered at the hands of men.  Danica Roem is a leader in a trans national movement.

Historical Oppression

The oppression of women has been a key question for Marxism. After all, women constitute half the human race, and have faced discrimination and degradation in many areas of life. The oppression of women in the third world has reached abominable levels. It is accompanied by child prostitution, bonded-labor and slavery. It is capitalism in the raw. Recently, an Iranian Islamic court found a woman guilty of adultery. For this heinous crime, she was sentenced to death by stoning. Here, in its most cruel and brutal form, is reflected the worse features of class society. In the 'civilized' west, working class women are treated as second-class citizens, many of who are forced into the menial jobs on poor wages. Despite equal pay legislation, employers still continue to discriminate against women in terms of pay and conditions.

This point is clearly untrue, but the socialist movement attempts to forge solidarity between male and female workers in a common struggle against capitalist exploitation. The emancipation of women can never be achieved under capitalist society, which holds working people, both women and men, in subjugation.

It is often alleged:

that women have been historically oppressed for millennia

that (at various times) women could not leave the house, hold accounts, etc.

that any excesses by modern feminism are simply a backlash against historical oppression, etc.

Ample material exists in refutation:

History Professor Martin van Creveld has written a volume, "The Privileged Sex," in which he documents the female privileges (and male disadvantages) which historically have accompanied ostensible disadvantages to the female role. His volume is thorough and well-annotated.

Historian Joanne Bailey, Professor of History at Oxford Brookes (not Oxford University), has written a monograph HERE.

The monograph shows that married women held more or less power of attorney to the marital property, only nominally recorded in the husband's name.

Further many jurisdictions required by law that the household expenses be borne entirely by the husband, with the husband forbidden access to the wife's assets, rendering the husband an "asset slave".

Many jurisdictions would jail the husband for failure to support (often at sole whim or complaint of the wife), thus rendering the husband an "income slave":

At least one front-page article detailed first-wave suffragettes deliberately contracting debts in order to cause their husbands to be jailed.

One immigrant newspaper circa 1910 contained a pitiful letter from husbands jailed for non-support, begging their wives to let them out just for the upcoming holiday EXAMPLE   EXAMPLE.  The Editor responds that they have committed a crime and deserve to be punished.

In addition, the DEM Equality Act promotes INEQUALITY - what?