A-Infos (en) Italy, Umanita Nova #24-25 - Tear Down the Patriarchy, Shatter Genders, Liberate Bodies. Anarchy and Transfeminism (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Anarchy and Transfeminism ---- TEAR DOWN THE PATRIARCHY, SHATTER 
GENDERS, LIBERATE BODIES ---- The transfeminist movement, which in 
recent years has forcefully emerged within society, has brought a very 
significant shift to historical feminism, which was mainly anchored in 
the goal of equality between men and women. It challenges the binary 
order and thus carries out a radical critique of patriarchy. ---- The 
rooting and expansion of transfeminist and queer movements are 
increasingly indispensable in the face of the intensification of 
patriarchal oppression in the present phase, in which, in various parts 
of the world, the link with religious oppression is becoming stronger. 
In Italy, the Meloni government has introduced specific patriarchal and 
familist legislative measures to promote birth rates within the 
traditional family. However, familism and the defense of the 
traditional, sexist, and hierarchical family are not the exclusive 
heritage of the reactionary right; there is also a familism rooted in 
the tradition of the left.

Patriarchy is one of the fundamental knots of social oppression.
The exploitation of dominant sexed bodies over dominated sexed bodies 
predates capitalist exploitation and cannot be automatically overcome by 
the overthrow of capitalism alone, but only through a transformation of 
social relations that goes hand in hand with simultaneous economic and 
social transformation. The gender question is not something to be 
resolved "afterwards": we reject the politics of two stages.

We reject any form of binarism which, with the rigid division of roles 
based on the two sexes -male and female-, provides, under the pretext of 
a supposed naturalness, the justification for the hierarchy on which 
patriarchy rests.

We believe that transfeminism constitutes a space for radical critique 
of patriarchy in which anarchism can express its own content, connect 
effectively with ongoing struggles, and promote demands that correspond 
to prospects of real social change through libertarian methods.

However, we identify some critical issues -not exclusive to the 
transfeminist movement- which sometimes appear as an identity-based 
positioning (not generalized but still widespread) that tends to 
recognize legitimacy of intervention only for those who directly 
experience specific oppressions, relegating other subjects, deemed 
"privileged," exclusively to an uncritical support role. We believe that 
this delegitimizing approach must be dismantled in order to affirm, 
against any identitarianism, an inclusive and plural universal and to 
continue to uphold the practice of solidarity by weaving meaningful 
alliances.

It is important to continue working on a theoretical and practical 
elaboration that allows for an anarchist, original, and revolutionary 
approach to gender reflection, promoting concrete initiatives that add 
further radicality to transfeminist struggles and demands.

We therefore identify the need to adopt the transfeminist critical 
perspective in the various campaigns and interventions that the FAI 
considers activating within the context of social struggles, as well as 
to promote transfeminist intervention against specific sexist policies 
implemented by the government, which increasingly consolidate the sexual 
division of labor, discrimination, and the denial of freedom of choice 
over one's own body. In this sense, for example, fall the pro-natalist 
policies, attacks on abortion, contraception, and sex education, cuts to 
social services, and the security-based response to sexual violence 
-nourished by a rape culture grounded in the domination of bodies. 
Moreover, the growing militarization of society reinforces a machista 
model based on hierarchy, oppression, brutality, and the cult of strength.

We intend to proceed collectively as a Federation also along this path.
The intersectionality often emphasized in today's transfeminist debate 
is part of the anarchist perspective when we are able to grasp the 
connections among the various issues that generate oppression and 
exploitation without establishing a hierarchy of problems and solutions.

Our perspective is that of social revolution: the radical transformation 
of the existing world through the simultaneous transformation of all 
relationships.

Federazione Anarchica Italiana
Conference of Empoli, 20-21 September 2025

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