I've been thinking about this comment for a couple days now. It strikes me that the capitalists copied the gdr in dealing with their growing discontent lgbt communities when queers started organising into the Gay Liberation Front and dozens of other orgs, all of which were radical and full of communists.

The capitalists gave concessions to the lgbt movement, partially integrating them into society and improving their conditions in order to deradicalise and coopt the movement. This worked rather fantastically, as the lgbt orgs and movement and Pride events are firmly lib now, lacking radicalism.

As the conditions for trans people continue to decrease I am increasingly coming to the belief that creating ML trans people will eventually lead to concessions and integration in order to deradicalise the movement. It's not going to produce communism, but it would produce better conditions for trans people. It's a historically proven viable model for generating results for lgbt people.

They aren't that bothered about queer activism, it's not enough to generate results. They ARE bothered by society being threatened by queer MLs.

This is the strongest argument I have seen for convincing people to actually actively learn and become MLs for the purposes of improving the conditions of lgbt people.