To me this applies equally to Universalism, which is too little questioned. While the federalist basis of anarchism should embrace this, it is important that we do not just accept authoritarian ideas in the name of diversity. In arguing that anarchists must absorb the insights of the black, women's, gay and now transgender and disability liberation movements, I would warn against an uncritical approach to this. Radical Black Power has since become Black Nationalism, supporting the black petite bourgeoisie and their ambitions, for example. All identity politics are based on a nationalist model, whether they are assimilationist or separatist.
Transgendered women occupy a similar position in some Feminist circles.
In embracing diversity, as we must, anarchists must be careful to develop an integrated politics of liberation, not of identity. Nevertheless, we now know so much more about human life than we did in the 19th century, and to ignore new insights into human liberation is to consign anarchism to irrelevance. We must not make the same mistake. Bi Community News, Issue 8, June 1996. The idea was that a female soul had been trapped in a male body, resulting in an attraction to men, and vice versa.