To stand up to gender violence: anticapitalist feminism

Spain year 2022. Anti-feminist discourses continue to appear on social networks and the media. The number of women killed so far this year is on track to meet or exceed the number for the year 2021. And reports of gender-based violence are on the rise., since it is estimated that 20 decade 10.000 women are victims of attacks.

Although the undulations of the fourth international feminist wave mean that it is currently in a moment of low and stable, the road traveled, the rights won and the progress made, They mark the way to follow and defend. It is for these reasons that anti-capitalist feminism continues in the streets and disputes in every place where the rights of women and the LBTBIQ+ community are attempted to be violated..

The "Trans Law" a pending and necessary recognition

The Trans law advances in the depathologization and no longer requires the proof of gender dysphoria through a medical report to formalize the change in the Civil Registry. Nor does it require starting a medical treatment of at least two years to accommodate the physical characteristics of the sex claimed.. With the new regulations, trans people would legally no longer be considered sick.

further, reinforces the right of minors to be heard, allowing them to change their name in the Civil Registry at any age and change their sex from 12 years. The elders of 16 years will not need legal representatives and will be able to attend the Civil Registry on their own. There are also other aspects, such as the ban on conversion therapies, education in diversity and the social and labor insertion of trans people, among other advances.

The great point of discussion the free self-determination of gender, since the most radicalized feminism considers it controversial that minors can self-determine and choose.

The anti-feminist discourse and its expansion in the networks

In this context where the feminist movement is divided by strong questions of identity, anti-feminist speeches gain ground on the networks, thanks to the appearance of young referents, that discredit gender identity. Without going further, Here we have written about atrocities said by Naim Darrechi on social networks. Unfortunately characters as nefarious as Naim, They keep popping up online. That is why a study on Youth in the manosphere. Influence of digital misogyny on young men's perception of sexual violence.

In the work of the doctor in Social Anthropology Elisa García-Mingo and the social researcher Silvia Díaz Fernández, it is developed that the advancement in rights for gender equality, that are reflected in laws of greater equality, it is opposed by the response of certain men who feel victims of these advances and who have found in the networks a great loudspeaker to express their disagreement.

Speech that is protected from far-right political sectors, as the case of Vox, who speaks of "Gender ideology" as a way of belittling the struggle of all feminist movements. Since his speech is based on a moral panic that sees such movements as a threat, against men and against the heteropatriarchal family model.

Thus, Vox denies that there is gender-based violence and therefore rejects the idea of ​​gender-based violence and promotes the concept of domestic violence, considering that the first criminalizes men and victimizes women in an interested way. And the young population is buying that speech. As stated by the researchers “Youth are becoming literate in misogyny through social media. For them, feminism has been institutionalized and the countercultural is antifeminism”.

Anti-capitalist feminism as a background response

We are a few days away from a new 25 of November, international day against gender violence. And in this scenario, it is necessary to consider, once more than, in an economic system, that uses its political representatives and their speeches, to exercise cultural and social domination, that makes dissidence invisible and underestimates women, they won't be able to silence us.

Years of mobilizations and actions, we have been taught that the fight to end male oppression is not a fight against men. It is a fight against the capitalist system, against patriarchal justice and against all its institutions. We invite you to fight Together and to the Left, so that capitalism and patriarchy fall together. So that the speeches of the false progressivism of PSOE – United We Can, do not prevent us from continuing to conquer rights. And so that the right of Vox and the PP, do not think that your anti-feminist speech takes place in the youth. Standing up to all of them implies that our anger is transformed into struggle and organization. From SOL and the International Socialist League we will continue to support the feminist claim, anti patriarchal and anti capitalist around the world.