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Title: Gender Vandalism
Author: Glimmer Pilled
Language: en
Topics: queer, transgender, GLBT
Source: Retrieved on December 23, 2021, from https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/909148154887282829/909148366787735562/Gender_Vandalism_Reformatted.pdf

Glimmer Pilled

Gender Vandalism

Glimmer P.

making a claim of “I am not”; it is a rejection of that which is imposed

upon us within the

confines of normative gender. It is taking the identity you were

forcefully classified into, and

defacing it, to vandalize it.

Discursive Categorization

sex as a biological truth, determined by external and internal facts of

our existence, and gender

being social conventions, determining a contrast between a masculine and

feminine experience.

as a result of categorization, but they viewed sex as a biological

category and gender as a

historical one. So feminist of the present, specifically those who call

themselves “trans

exclusionary”, adopt a brand of gender abolition that seeks to get rid

of gender while mantaining

the category of sex.

sustain each other in an almost symbiotic fashion.

between subjects in the production of goods, plays an essential part in

understanding gender on a

material basis. Gender does not naturally manifest within the body, so

it is set aside.

breasts, the chromosomes). These components are then distinguished, and

put together into either

the male or female classes.

them that they find themselves in. The sexes now become subjects, who in

relation to the

components that make them up (such as genitals and chromosomes) are

upheld by themselves,

and the components that make up their category.

serve to validate the idea of sex as a biological truth. Now the idea of

a natural sex becomes

socially acceptable, and social acceptability reproduces itself as

“acceptable” within discursive

categorization, because it produces itself as categorization.

natural takes the concept of our anatomy being naturally occuring and

applies that to the

conceptions of male and female being so as well.

categories. In order to fully grasp the categorical conception of sex,

we must first understand why

it was categorized.

an external inspection, the genitals, the chest area, the body hair, the

bone structure, is then taken

and grouped together.

There was no way to look into the body, or to determine chromosomal

patterns.

features were simply seen as abnormailities and deviations that did not

fit the easy distinctive

majority. Through this simplistic analysis, two groups came about.

application of these features within the context of the labour force.

Quite simply, those deemed

physically dominant based on the general bodily structure of their group

were assigned the

productive labour, and their counterparts the reproductive labour which

sought to ensure the

smooth continuation of their opposition's production.

The material conditioning created by this division of labour created

separate experiences through

which sexual classes became legitimized through their own makeup.

social conditions applied to those factors were deemed natural as well

and thus, the classes

entered a feedback loop through which they naturalized themselves.

occurrence. So as gender forms as a result of this social conditioning

within sexual classes, the

idea is then proposed that gender itself is natural as well.

gendered relation.

the two sexes.

support the other. That continues to build off of the other, and keep

each other intact through

discourse.

asserts itself as an untouchable truth.

socialization which cannot be refuted. They become a fact of nature, and

the status quo builds

around these axiomatic categories and become the standard for what is

normal.

Validity

validated and upheld as truths by the societal conception of nature.

are born with these identities already in you.

be performed. As these identities become a part of the status quo, they

are considered the

guideline within the dominant gender structure which imposes itself as a

corrective force to any

oppositional (or, different) expressions of gender.

erased through violence and replaced with the colonial normative gender

structure.

rubric for gender expression. So as a result, every identity that may

appear within the gender

structure must undergo the same process of inspection in order to be

considered valid.

a disagreement between an individual and the assignment.

make sense of it. This refusal is categorized following the logic of the

presupposed normative

identities, creating them in such a way that they fit within the gender

structure as a byproduct of

it.

is considered a homosexual. This identity is abnormal as it deviates

from the standard behavior

that a member of the male class is supposed to display.

conceptions without subverting them.

do so by simply acknowledging the homosexual identity as one that holds

truth. Even through

the violence, the identity is considered real.

to be beneficial to liberatory desire of the queer gr.

LGBTQ+ community, and through the expansion of expression.

encompasses as tangible. The gender structure recognizes the identity,

and thus allows it to exist.

It accepts these expressions of queerness within it, but this acceptance

is not purely positive.

experiences violence by virtue of its recognition.

subjects under these identities can now be grouped and targeted in a

specific way.

gender and sexuality within them.

then is to make sure the subjects existing within the structure are

morally pure as well.

standard.

capitalist structure. To the puritans during the American reconstruction

period, anything that

deviated from the racial standard of whiteness was considered morally

impure.

American society. But the tool the puritan utilizes most effectively is

that of sexuality.

sensitivity to sexuality intensified by christian morality.

as a predator, who fetishized the white woman, and the black woman as a

hypersexual animal

who sought after the good married white man.

entirely dependent on the structure's rules and conditions, its

normative standard. This creates a

structure in which anything that is not normal is morally impure in

contrast.

class is identified, and it is categorized as a deviation from the

standard. When this category is

made, it is given a name, and it is validated as a reality.

to the standard it is identified as perverse. Now its reality is taken

into account and it can be

acted against. It can now be corrected, suppressed, and studied.

Valid Abnormality

identities it enacted violence against.

believe that this validation extended to them was positive, and that the

process of validation must

be respected, and carried out by themselves.

long as they pose no threat to it. I make this claim not to take away

from these identities, but

rather to illustrate a conscious process.

recognized as valid identities; following this mode of thinking, we once

again realize the contrast

to hererosexuality that validates these identities.

normative womanhood, albeit non-traditionally in her queerness, but

nonetheless still

maintaining that cisgender identity.

relationship with oppression, but to simply acknowledge the degrees of

privilege that come with

being positioned in certain proximity to the dominant force of power.

opportunity to use her proximity to power in order to reinforce the

demands of the valid gender

structure. To acknowledge the reality that the effort to carry out these

demands makes the cis

lesbian a victim to herself.

position they should seek to achieve.

adopt a sense of loyalty to the gender structure, and through it an urge

to protect it.

the normative standard.

through its validation it is placed back directly inside of it. The

label takes into account the

existence of the binary, accepting it as truth, and asserting itself as

an opposition to it.

discursive category (i.e. that it is produced along the lines of

androgynous physicality,

personality, and sociality), and as such, it becomes “acceptable” only

as feedback to its

categorization.

produces discursive expectation at the advent of its “acceptability.”

Non-binary Person” becoming a normative standard for example. Its

validation simply comes

from its own role within the gender structure as an antithesis to the

binary.

of normal and through that ensure that it does not fall.

the lesbian label in a way that deviates from the “normal”definition,

bring to light the fragility of

the label.

liked other women. Now in our present day, new discourse has arisen and

through it new ways to

formulate ideas, and feelings, and assign meaning came with it.

traditional lesbians who still believe strongly in the original

definition of lesbianism may say that

this new definition invalidates lesbianism, and they would not be wrong.

history, just as the recognition of lesbianism as a validated identity

does not either.

not take into account a resistance to oppression in order to make its

verdict, it simply takes into

account the relation to normativity.

become reactive, placed in a position where it is stagnant.

label. It spits in the face of the original process that determined

lesbianism as an existing identity,

but in order to classify it as perverse.

to abandon the original result of the lesbian discourse. This

invalidates that first definition by

boldly acknowledging what the guidelines state, simply saying “no”, and

then painting a new

result over it. It vandalizes the definition.

Pathology

normative society, the institutions that make up this society seek to

expand the gender structures

control.

prevents the expression of queerness through the legal, medical, and

psychiatric industries to

name a few.

states of normativity. However, these material manifestations of control

are not absolute, nor do

they stand alone.

of queerness is simultaneously encouraged as well.

telling us to express it to its fullest extent.

because it wishes to study it. It wishes to extract this knowledge out

of the body so they can

produce its truth.

there is a right and wrong, and these identities and these sexualities

and these genders have an

explanation, and a cause, and a reason.

genders are expressed, then you can continue to reinforce the idea that

these identities are

naturally occurring defects that deviate from the normal and healthy

standards which are

naturally occurring as well. Queerness becomes a subject of biology.

defect but are otherwise natural. Defective, definitely not the desired

outcome, but natural!

under christian morality. You’re now accepted, because the therapists

and the psychiatrists said

you could be. Because they gave you the permission to exist, thanks to

the sheer good grace of

their authority validating you.

of chemical imbalances and genetics. This idea is beneficial to the

gender structure, as it can

support the social conditioning within the gender binary as a natural

occurrence.

queerness in favor of the concept of a certain predetermined queer

essence. It is positioned

beside the same guise that determines sex and the gender binary as a

result of nature.

medical field, it loses its ability to oppose. It throws a blanket over

the alienating conditions

within gender that lead to a contradiction.

are gay or lesbian or bisexual or trans, but they are first coming to

the conclusion that they are

not straight and/or cis. It is not an immediate understanding of “I am”,

but an initial thought of “I

am not”.

understanding of what is normal.

naturally, yes, but the conceptualization of that attraction being queer

does not. The

conceptualization of belonging to the same sex-defined class does not

either.

understanding that the place we had in our sex-defined class was normal,

and in that class we had

to be attracted to members of the opposite class.

they were supposed to, they realized they were not normal. That they

were queer.

queerness as a universally congruent experience. It presents a violent

framework based on two

sides of a coin: Either you are born this way , or you must choose to be

this way.

you could only logically partake in against your own will.

that would validate the idea that it is a choice, and the connotation

around the action of choice in

this context is an extremely negative fact.

it is nonsensical. This creates a rigid queer experience where the body

and mind have no affect

over this affliction. That there is no chance for exploration or change.

light. The idea that certain experiences may be the result of a “phase”

are painted in the same

light.

under queerness. It is a rejection of the experimentation that makes way

for the journey towards

an acceptance given by the individual to themselves, instead opting for

the acceptance of a

biological diagnosis.

Queer Assimilation

perpetuating it discreetly.

contrary, it boosts the effectiveness of exploitation since assimilation

simply extenuates the

conditions of the exploited.

factor of natural composition.

itself as the standard of the human condition, and erases its own

pervasive effect upon those

subjected under it.

but instead fixed within the conditions that capitalism sets.

for immediate survival, but instead it is proposed that they are simply

born into the world that

way.

experience and its fluidity, and instead delegates it simply to a fixed

affair of determinist essence.

it as a natural part of the capitalist superstructure.

groups who are considered to be naturally occurring, and the capitalist

superstructure can

continue to claim that the gender binary is the result of nature while

we comply.

favors the integration and acceptance of the queer community because

through it, it can then

continue to oppress queer individuals while creating the idea that the

violence enacted against

them is self-inflicted.

slightly by giving them the right to vote in the case of women and black

people and gay marriage

in the case of the queer community, for example.

their pride parades and the “right” to healthcare, all while still

leaving oppressive policies intact

with the promise of maybe, just maybe, changing them one day, then you

can create the illusion

that implies that their liberation is something that can be given to

them.

create the idea that these rights are rewards for good behavior, and if

they don’t cause any

problems and comply with the system enough that they become deserving of

liberation. Then,

and only then, will they be liberated.

must be at fault. They themselves are to blame for their oppression, and

thus it promotes

compliance with the structure.

them they may get hormones, but so long as they can decide that we

actually need it according to

their standards. They tell them they may express themselves, but so long

as it makes sense to

them.

it on to themselves, policing their own behavior out of a sense of

self-hatred.

[115} Reformism promotes a redirection of the anger felt by the

oppressed subject against the

world around them, and applying it now against themselves.

subservience. Liberation will not be given, it will be created.

not come from the oppressors' acceptance. But this does not mean that it

is impossible.

metamorphosis, it is a welcoming of euphoria. It is the ability to

renounce the state of being

forced and assigned upon you in favor of a new and constant becoming.

Exclusion

and exclusion, but this is not a hopeless fact in and of itself. I

propose instead, a call to relish

within exclusion. An affirmation of difference. A call to abandon

validity.

never included in. The push made is not one that fights to be allowed

into these hierarchical

communities, but instead to operate their own systems in order to help

themselves.

need horizontally across our communities through mutual aid. To not sit

in compliance while

we’re denied our healthcare and denied HRT and instead to learn how to

treat ourselves when no

one else will.

our community has to come from ourselves. We need to be armed, to learn

how to defend

ourselves and use those weapons, because when the time comes, those who

wish to get rid of us

will already know how to use theirs.

because we will not see a complete gender abolition in our lifetimes.

now.

when you get someone else to do so as well. It cannot come without our

own rejection of gender,

without an abolition of ourselves.

queerness.

interest of the very superstructure we wish to escape. We must rewire

the thought process that

validates oppressive systems we’re told to comply with, in order to

achieve self reliance.

Abolition

Vandalism.

gay assimilation, of gay compliance. We must not adopt this method.

care for it, and nurture it in such a way that we maintain and support

it.

us under oppression. That when we behave outside of the acceptable

guidelines of gender

expression, then we create an incentive for our oppressor to oppose us.

our use of neopronouns, from lesbians who explore their identity outside

of traditional

womanhood, from the nonbinary umbrella expanding.

therefore taught that gender is innocent and ultimately deserving of

compliance.

existence, where existence, our own experience, is innocent!

through the idea of biological sex.

referring to them as “male” and “female” they turn to the terms

“Assigned Male at Birth” or

“Assigned Female at Birth.''

that biological sex is undeniable. This is the phenomenon of

bio-essentialism.

the acceptance of “biological sex.”

again as a dominant power which validates gender under the guise of

professionalism. With this

passage, the ontology of gender is given truth through the body's

anatomy.

think like either. We have no biological sex.

transness as an occurrence of nature, all of the ways through which

gender cements itself as a

truth must be refuted, and stripped of respect.

towards organizing, towards creating a discourse aimed to break down

gender. We create a new

means through which we interact with gender and through which we

identify its effect. We open

up the door for a new queerness that seeks to abolish itself.

gender on the personal level and gender as the system of categorization.

identity.

still serve as a source of empowerment and solidarity under the gender

system in the sense that

individuals can come together based on a shared experiences and a shared

struggle.

not what it signifies individually. The labels simply serve as a

descriptor of the interaction

between the individual and their material conditions within gender.

personal link to queerness can coexist with the attack on the gender

system.

take part in the discourse, but no longer abide by the guidelines that

dictate the way we speak

and interact with it. We trespass, and we vandalise.

“MTF” or “FTM”. We are no longer “AFAB” or “AMAB”. We no longer wait to

be told whether

or not we’re dysphoric. We spit in the face of these terms.

maleness and femaleness. We ourselves no longer being women, create a

new lesbianism. A

lesbianism that means anything we can will it to mean.

“women loving women” down to “non-women liking non-women,” when lesbians

started to use

pronouns that were not she/her.

anger is confirmation that this vandalism worked.

and definitions are not set in stone and are susceptible to change, and

will continue changing.

everything down to the very building blocks used to create these

identities. Every label is

vandalized until they evolve into something unrecognizable.

these gender vandalist identities make a mockery out of ourselves.

have no reason to respect and appreciate the prison we were put into

with the classifications of

our abnormality.

disregard. We mock the position we’re put in. We paint over our prison

walls.

oppressor, and instead reveling in a radical acceptance of ourselves. To

steer clear of the

pervasive discourse that pits us against our own communities, and

instead create a discourse that

unifies us and targets gender.

world with those who have been accepted. But that's where the

misconception comes from, the

assumption that our oppressors are not oppressed themselves by gender.

cisgender people and heterosexuals are stuck in this very prison with

us.

inadvertently harm themselves in the process.

victimizing herself to the point in which she begins to fear the very

women along herself. She

will create a standard for womanhood and beauty so unattainable that she

herself cannot sustain.

prison. A prison in which he himself resides, leading misogyny to eat

away at his own gender.

Every single one of us is trapped within this prison, serving life

without parole.

Abandoning Gender

prison. A destruction that nears each time a member of the prison

realizes this.

walls. We do not know exactly what lies outside of this prison. But we

must find out.

we will jump out of these uniforms, and out of these cells, and meet the

prison with force. We

will vandalize it!

Discursive Categorization [2-22]

Validity [23-48]

Valid Abnormality [49-72]

Pathology [73-97]

Queer Assimilation [98-118]

Exclusion [119-128]

Abolition [129-165]

Abandoning Gender [166-168]