11 POINT PROGRAM:

We insist upon the following:

1. The Abolition of the Police and Prisons:
   Where the bourgeois state is empowered to exact terroristic violence with impunity, where it is empowered to expose our people to conditions in which they are raped, murdered, beaten, deprived of healthcare, and discriminated against, is an intolerable crime against our community. Thus, we demand that the role of protecting and serving, keeping the peace, and deterrence of violence, be given to the self-organized and armed community of oppressed and working people for their collective self-defense. We demand that trans inmates be housed with their self-identified gender and have any requested gender-affirming healthcare made available without restriction. We demand the immediate release of non-violent offenders, the immediate closure of private prisons, the passing of a constitutional amendment to criminalize slavery even in the case of punishment for a crime, and the gradual phasing out of prisons generally, with self-organized communities taking upon on the task of disciplining offenders for themselves.
2. The Abolition of ICE, Closure of Border Camps, and Justice for Immigrants:
   The domestic and naturalized masses are not the only masses of queer people in America who are likewise victimized by the bourgeois state; we must insist upon immediate naturalization and reparations for every person currently held in immigration concentration camps along  our southern border (and elsewhere), immediate naturalization for all immigrants currently living in the United States, and call for an expedited process for gaining documentation. We further demand the repeal of NAFTA and an end to the neo-bracero programs (AKA temporary worker programs) which simultaneously exploit the vulnerable working population of other countries while empowering agricultural capitalist conglomerates to wreak havoc on domestic labor power.
3. Freedom Over Our Bodies And Guaranteed Healthcare:
   Our people will never be free until we are free to modify our bodies as we see fit, without the bourgeois state interfering with the relationship between doctor and patient. Healthcare, as one of the basic elements of our subsistence, must be guaranteed for all, including (but not limited to) gender-affirming healthcare; gender-affirming healthcare ought to be provided on an informed-consent basis, without need of a prescription, letter from a therapist, or any other barrier to access; and hormones in particular ought to be available over-the-counter. In this we include minors, who we insist have better judgment of their own sense of self and healthcare needs than legal authorities, bureaucratic crooks, and, indeed, even their own parents who may attempt to interfere with their child’s healthcare needs for personal reasons. Moreover, we also affirm that the right to abortion, the right to choose and to have personal autonomy over ones reproductive anatomy, must not be infringed upon.
4. Full Employment and Equal Wages:
   Trans people continue to be discriminated against in employment and often make as little as 60 cents on the dollar--and even less than that for those of us who experience multiple dimensions of oppression. We insist that every person is entitled to an income befitting a dignified livelihood, and so, if the government is incapable of guaranteeing universal, full-time employment and proper, living wages, then it is responsible and obligated to provide such an income. Furthermore, if corporations will not provide full employment, then the means of production should be taken from them by the community so that they can be organized and employed by all of its people, to provide for themselves a higher standard of living.
5. Exemption From Military Service And Military Subsidy:
   No trans or queer person should be obligated to participate in military service for the defense of a trans- and homo- phobic empire. We will not be made to fight and to kill other queer people who are, just like us, victimized by our imperialist ruling class, no matter how much pink-washing they attempt. Every tank, every bomb, every drone, and every missile, likewise paid for out of the common treasury, kills untold numbers of trans and queer folk abroad while lining the pockets of our very own oppressors.  Furthermore, the wealth created by our class is expropriated from us twice: once by our employers who expropriate our surplus value in the form of profit, then once again by the ruling class at large in the form of taxation. With this second sum, they give weapons to Israel, to Ukraine, to Saudi Arabia, and so forth; with this second sum they defend the extraction of resources from the third world,  fill the coffers of defense contractors, and defend geopolitical interests at the expense of people by the thousands and millions. The indomitable racket of war benefits the very few at the expense of the great many. And for these reasons, we also demand the option to opt-out of funding the military with our taxes.
6. Guaranteed Housing:
   Homelessness effects trans people at disproportionate rates due to discrimination--both in housing and in employment--and due to negligent and belligerent parents abandoning, disowning, or otherwise abusing their trans and queer children. Where homeless shelters exist, trans women in particular are subject to violence where they are allowed to enter, and denied, as a matter of course, from women’s shelters (which are often not much better or safer). We demand policy to protect our community from discrimination by landlords and the accomodation of public housing options for anyone who can't afford housing; we demand a dignified living situation free from violence.
7. Sex Worker Protections:
   Many of those without income or employment end up in sex work for survival. Participation in the sex industry exposes people--usually women--to violence, both by johns and by the police, while discrimination against sex workers prevents escape to other areas of employment. In many cases, anti-prostitution laws--such as ‘walking while trans’ laws--are used to justify the profiling, discrimination, harrassment, and arrest of trans people generally. For these reasons we demand anti-discrimination protections for former sex workers, protections for sex workers from state violence (ie, decriminalizing selling sex), and the assurance that no john or pimp is safe to perpetrate violence with impunity. If the capitalist police can make no such assurance, then they should not interfere in communities meting out justice in their stead. Furthermore we demand an end to the profiling of trans people.
8. The Abolition Of Gender Markers:
   We believe no legal document or form of identification benefits from or requires the inclusion of a gender marker, and, moreover, that it provides opportunities for discrimination where the recorded gender is perceived to be in contradiction with a persons gendered expression. Thus, rather than calling for increased flexibility for the recorded gender on our documents, we instead call for the abolition of this frivolous detail in its entirety.
9. Facilitation of Name Change Without Alias Registry:
   The various federal and state agencies make the process of changing one's name overly long and complicated, and with various fees too. We also worry that records of name and gender changes may be used to persecute trans people, just as it happened with ‘transvestite passes’ in the Weimar Republic. Thus, we demand a centralized, universal name registry, which can be applied to online or by letter, which is free to do, and which keeps no record of prior aliases. Furthermore, we call for the abolition of laws which require the publication of name changes in the paper or any other source, which serve no practical purpose other than the facilitation of discrimination.
10. The Abolition of the Institution of Marriage:
    The bond between partners based on love or between the parents of children no longer has any need for legal recognition by the state or the compulsion of contractual obligation. Those privileges which are currently awarded only to legally recognized partnerships shall be provided to any informal arrangement which finds its basis on romance, love, sex, or mutual responsibility to a child or to children. Anyone who prefers to practice a wedding ceremony is of course free to do so, but no matrimony or bond ordained by any minister or secular MC shall be recognized by the state.
11. Restitution and National Autonomy to First Nations:
    The first incidents of systemic violence against our community on this continent was in fact colonial violence perpetrated against the indigenous first nations. We demand the return of stolen land once promised back to the hands of the first nations, reinstatement of treaty rights, full national autonomy, independence, and right to self determination for each nation, and further reparations for generations of abuse and discrimination.