>>21458For my country, on the issue of LGBT people in general, these would be my arguments
1. support individual self-determination
1.a. anything else is a conservative, idealist form of morality
2. historicize class in order to see how gender, race, and nationality distort any "pure" form of class (e.g. the role of women in primitive accumulation and early capitalism, the role of women's domestic labor in reproducing capitalism, the national and racial disproportions in the working class and the bourgeoisie, etc.)
3. understand why conservatives attack lgbtq+ individuals
3.a. sex is the tether for gender that is used to claim its natural existence. If sex and gender activities are untethered, it's a threat to patriarchy, and thus a threat to the historic bourgeoisie (e.g. increased competition) and the reproduction of capitalism (e.g. women withdrawing labor).
3.b. it's the refusal to perform sex-assigned-gender activities, as required by the supremacist superstructure. Refusal is treated harshly, the same way criticism within a cult or disobeying a mafia don is treated harshly. The worry is it could cause a cascading effect that unseats patriarchy
basically, to support these identities on both human grounds of self-determination and because their detractors are upholding systems of oppression (patriarchy specifically) that scaffold capitalism.
>>21465on your adoption issue: if your party is against adoption because of the commodified nature, then be against adoption for everyone. A child shouldn't be treated as something everyone has a right to (a consumerist mindset anyways). A child is a responsibility. Like another anon said, insofar as there are children in need of legal guardians for natural reasons, then allowing queer couples and individuals to adopt is helpful to the problem. [no i dont have studies :,( ]
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