My name is Allison, thank you for listening.

This is a special episode that we are doing, kind of a rather dminis and rev left.

I am normally one of the co-hosts on Red Minis with my co-host Brett O'Shea, but we decided

to use our platforms to have a bit of a different episode with a conversation that we think is

important.

Specifically today, I'm going to be sitting down with two comrades to kind of discuss

some of the issues that we see in the socialist movement arising from an incorrect and honestly

kind of a clactic line on gender and on the experiences and position of trans people

in general and how they should be understood by Marxist.

This is something that has kind of come up in conversations that we've had, but also

in terms of conversations that organizations have been having internally and externally.

We think it's important to try to get some clarity on this.

We're going to be using this platform that we have from these podcasts in order to try

to have this conversation.

I am joined by Esperanza and Ray, who I'm super excited to have here for us to dive a little

bit into this and really just kind of a back and forth conversation that's going to try

to look at what this incorrect line we want to respond to is also try to figure out sort

of what errors it's making offer critique of it and then kind of gesture towards developing

a proletarian line and a correct line based on social investigation.

So with that said, I'm going to go ahead and pass it over to our guests real quick so

that we can sort of get everyone introduced.

So I'll go ahead and go to Esperanza first.

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