Haaretz reported last week that the Justice Ministry of the Israeli government will make it significantly easier for trans people to change their gender on their identity cards even if they haven’t undergone gender reassignment surgery, obviously as a trans woman I welcome any government making it easier for trans people to self-identify and not needing to validate our existence etc, but the question I have is whether the measures announced by the Israeli government in improving trans rights will just apply to Israelis who are trans or will it extend to Palestinians/Arabs who are trans and living within Israel.

In going further then some Western governments have in furthering trans rights it makes the Israeli government look somewhat progressive, but this is typical of the Israeli government to pose as if they were supposedly progressive as a means to blindside people that they’re in fact orchestrating an apartheid regime against the Palestinian people and this goes beyond pinkwashing, for instance the Israeli army has bragged that it’s the most pro vegan in the world as a means of the Israeli government saying hey look we are really progressively ethical in the way we feed our soldiers but of course neglect to mention that soldiers being ethical vegans hasn’t stopped soldiers from unethically murdering innocent Palestinian protesters, however specifically what it is I fear about yet more pinkwashing from the Israeli government is that many trans people will be all happy clappy about this and yet will either just not care or being blatantly ignorant as to the racist atrocities being committed by the Israeli government.

Far too many trans people in my experience are far too fixated on trans rights to the detriment all other evil bullshit the likes of the Israeli government are inflicting upon other sections of society, I’m certainly not saying trans rights aren’t important I mean for fucks sake I’m trans myself so of course I realise campaigning for trans people to have far greater social justice and equality is important, but I think there are trans activists who really need to learn the intersectional mantra if you don’t care about the plight of other victimised people then why should other victimised people care about your own plight.

I knew trans women who defended the band Queen playing Sun City during the apartheid era in South Africa, oh right because trans people had legal protections guaranteeing them equality on par with White cis people from the year I was born under the apartheid regime in South Africa which were far more progressive compared to the UK government’s treatment of trans people at that time, this came off sounding to me as why should any trans person give a shit that Queen were giving legitimacy to a regime based upon racial supremacy and care that regime were violently victimising and persecuting the indigenous Black populous because hey at least White trans people had equal rights.

It’s true to say that Israel is far better when it comes to LGBTQ rights than any of the countries surrounding it where you’ll likely be jailed or even put to death for being openly LGBTQ, it’s true to say that LGBTQ rights in Israel are comparative to LGBTQ rights with countries in Western Europe, but be in no doubt Israel is currently an apartheid state. From the Uber type app which allowed users to discriminate against Arab taxi drivers, to the segregation of Jews and Palestinians in Israeli hospitals, to the current far-right Israeli government led by Benjamin Netanyahu ethically cleansing the West Bank in order to impose Netanyahu and the far-right’s particular brand of Lebensraum, all this and much evil racist else there is with the Israeli government just smacks to me of apartheid state and at least I’m one trans woman (who also happens to be Jewish and who’s father served in the Israeli IDF) is prepared to call out Israeli government for orchestrating an Apartheid against the Palestinian people and not be conned by Israeli government pinkwashing and thus why at the beginning of this article I posed the question whether Israeli government improving trans rights will just apply to Israelis who are trans or will it extend to Palestinians/Arabs who are trans and living within Israel because even if there aren’t trans Palestinians/Arabs have fewer legal rights then the rest of the Israeli population.

Maybe because as well as being trans and Jewish and physically disabled and Asperger’s I’ve got a greater sense of intersectionality ten many other trans people. Fellow trans journalist Jane Fae said to me I’m far better educated then your average trans person so I’ve a better political understanding of world then your average trans woman, I’ve always disputed that I’m any better educated then any other trans person and it’s not as if the intersectional mantra is fucking rocket science I mean its pretty much like Karma that if you don’t give a shit about others in this world then why should you expect others to give a shit about you and maybe more importantly if you shit on others then others are going to shit on you.