Trans Megathread for the Week of 10/21 to 10/27
Trans Megathread for the Week of 10/21 to 10/27
Final Fantasy XI
Final Fantasy XI is the eleventh numbered installment in the… Okay, you know what it is, I’m just going to tell you about one of the storylines!
During the Wings of the Goddess expansion, adventurers will be sent back in time to experience the events of the Crystal War, a cataclysmic event that is the foundation for conflicts of the modern-day timeline. Should an adventurer choose to serve the Kingdom of San d’Oria, they will be immersed in the story of the Young Griffons—a group of children who would see themselves knights, many of whom grow into prominent characters later in life.
Among the Young Griffons, the player will find Bistillot, a shy boy who doesn’t like to be seen. With his penchant for engineering, shy demeanor, and lack of combat potential, Bistillot prefers to spend his time inside of an orcish war machine that he was able to repair to working condition.
He is often seen before he is heard, with his signature phrase, “HAAAALLOOOOOOOOO” being used to hail the adventurer. Through the course of the story, Bistillot finds his way, even contributing to the war effort with his engineering skills.
However, when another member of the Young Griffons is kidnapped and taken to the present day, the adventurer must return to the present day and reunite with the Young Griffons’ present selves! The adventurer’s first contact in the present day is Bistillot. When the adventurer hears the signature “HAAAALLOOOOOOO,” Bistillot approaches the player, but what the player sees is… a woman?? She introduces herself as Bostilette, a “friend of Bistillot.”
After the rescue mission, Bostilette comes clean. She is, of course, the very same Bistillot who was a little boy twenty years earlier. She explains that she was very sick as a baby, so her parents gave her a boy’s name so that she would be stronger and survive the illness. Once she overcame the illness, she was comfortable to reclaim her name and gender. Well, that closes the book on that story, except… I’ve decided that’s bullshit!
I have unilaterally decided that Bostilette is trans, the sickness she had was dysphoria, she stayed in the orcish war machine because she was an egg, and I hope you all agree!
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The GMA's criticism isn't aimed at gender identity, it is aimed at gender as a class and that class includes that AGAB is enforced as being essential and immutable. It follows from this that any trans person acts inherently revolutionary towards gender, including those who have a binary understanding of their gender identity, and a gender performance that conforms to the societal expectations for that gender identity. Gay people also act revolutionary towards gender, because gender classes are inherently heteronormative.
Also, reproductive labor in the GMA means all gendered distribution of labor. If you're the breadwinner in a nuclear family, you are performing reproductive labor, specifically the kind of reproductive labor that is today associated with the male gender class. It does NOT follow from this that being a breadwinner means you're a man, the GMA specifically wants to abolish that association between this kind of labor and a male gender class.
The key to understanding this is that gender as a class is NOT the same as gender identity. It is a seperate dimension of the gendered experience, one that is not personal, but societal. The GMA's critique of identity politics is specifically that identity politics does not understand the class character of gender, but reduces it to characteristics of the individual. The GMA does not deny that there are individual, personal aspects of gender, it aims to seperate these from the superstructure and wants to enable people to choose them freely instead of these aspects being forced on them through their AGAB.
I agree that it goes into little detail about how cishets can contribute to gender abolition, but it's a text that advocates for trans liberation. We have enough cis-centric feminist literature about how to break up gender as a class for straight cis people. Ultimately, it boils down to the same seperation of individual choices from a restricitve superstrucutre that shoehorns people into gender classes. Under gender accelerationism, you can still be a mother as a cis woman and you can still be a breadwinner as a cis man, but these are no longer class based demands, but the free, individual decisions they should be.
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