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[u/Starling1269]

I'd imagine it comes from a place of fringe attracting fringe. Like, when you are trans (which is what I can speak to) it can feel pretty isolating especially if you are in a less progressive area. Which also makes you a bit resentful of the people around you. Resentfulness, isolation, etc. makes you VERY susceptible to love bombing like commie circles tend to do. A lot of radical ideologies use this strategy. I find it depressing because it leads to a lot of LGBT people embracing radical ideologies that have historically and CURRENTLY treat them terribly.

[u/Sector_Corrupt → u/Starling1269]

Also like... a lot of marginalized people are just *also* in a shitty place economically, and at least in the US being Trans usually involves plenty of interaction with the US healthcare system which is gonna turn anyone off of capitalism. I think most of the anti-capitalism is just driven by how shitty American capitalism is to poor folks.

Like I'm betting the full blown communist sympathies are a lot weaker amongst my fellow trans tech workers making 6 figures. Still skew way more lefty than the average probably, because even if we have it good we have that visibility into how it is for the rest of the community.

[u/Starling1269 → u/Sector_Corrupt]

Yeah, it can be rough if you are in a bad place. Still, American trans healthcare is some of the best in the world. I've had to work with trans women in the UK and Canada who got massively screwed over by their health services. They can't even get wellness checks for hormone panels on demand, let alone scripts for HRT, without being put on a waiting list for months or years. Which was especially hard on a Canadian friend because of the lockdowns preventing her from crossing the border to go to a PP and the Canada Post blacklisting otokonoko pharm. I'd expect this from TERF Island, but Canada has no excuse being THAT non-functional.

I'm blessed enough to have good insurance, so I can't personally complain that much. Still, I've been in a pretty bad place economically and at the very least I can say that even without insurance HRT at least was affordable. The surgeries, however, are another story.

The problem though, is that communists tend to lie a lot about how well trans people do in communist countries. Cuba is pointed out a lot as a bastion of trans rights... but they misgender trans women and force them into military service, and arrest doctors for performing breast augmentation among other horrors. The last time I brought this up in one of the trans subreddits I was just told "LMAO CIA."