El transfeminismo no es un humanismo: cruces entre animalidad y género

Abstract

In this paper we intend to argue that transfeminism is not a humanism, that is, it cannot be an extension of the humanist project that preserves intact the structures of exclusion that distribute privilege. Rather, transfeminism must be an antispeciesism and antispeciesism must be a transfeminism if both movements are to strengthen their struggles against all forms of oppression. The article unfolds in the following moments: first, we argue that hegemonic antispeciesist feminism reproduces the heterosexual regime and a binary perspective of gender. Second, we show that insights from queer ecofeminisms, queer theory, and trans studies can help antispeciesist feminism address how the cisheterosexual system of oppression articulates with the speciesist regime. Third, we reflect on the problem of the political subject of feminism from an antispeciesist and posthuman perspective. Finally, we propose to think, from possible articulations between LGBTIQA+ struggles and antispeciesist struggles, to think of a Latin American antispeciesist transfeminism from which to establish different political alliances that allow us to project other forms of life, desires, and ways of inhabiting the world.