It Was The Worst Of Times…

Brooklyn Lindsey was the 11th murder of a black trans woman in 2019.

We are on the way of setting a new record for the number of trans women murdered this year.

As we demand and get more of our rights, the right wing fanatics feel they are being forced back in the swamp. Like all cornered animals they fight back.

As Trans Visibility Increases, Is the Far Right Ramping Up Hate Speech?
An SPLC report indicates that transphobic hate speech is rapidly climbing
The Rolling Stone
By Ej Dickson
June 27, 2019

As Pride Month draws to a close, a troubling report from the Southern Poverty Law Center blog HateWatch sheds light on a possible uptick in threats against transgender people.

According to the post, the SPLC has witnessed a significant uptick in threats against transgender people during Pride Month. Although it did not release any hard data or figures to this effect, the SPLC said it had observed leaders of white nationalist groups increasingly making threats against transgender people, including calls for transgender people to be murdered or to take their own lives.

On the encrypted messaging app Telegram earlier this month, for example, white supremacist Christopher Cantwell wrote “assisted suicide is the only help you can give,” trans people, while a columnist for the neo-Nazi site the Daily Stormer wrote on June 20th that transgender people should “wear some kind of symbol on their clothing so that people can tell them apart,” akin to the yellow star or pink triangle Jews and LGBTQ people were required to wear during the Third Reich.

Hate now has a forum… hate has a place to recruit other haters.

Harvey Milk said,

“…you must come out. Come out to your parents. I know that it is hard and will hurt them, but think about how they will hurt you in the voting booth! Come out to your relatives. Come out to your friends, if indeed they are your friends. Come out to your neighbors, to your fellow workers, to the people who work where you eat and shop. Come out only to the people you know, and who know you, not to anyone else. But once and for all, break down the myths. Destroy the lies and distortions. For your sake. For their sake.

But those that hate us see this as an attack on them and they are fighting back. Last week I wrote about a Tennessee man who broke into a Milford church and damaged an office door because he believed the church and its pastor “were supporting and pushing the LGBT agenda.”

We see hate groups coming out into the open and marching and somehow “free speech” got twisted, at one time it “Solicitation to commit a crime of violence” that was when you called for violence against people.  Cornell Law School says,

(a) Whoever, with intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a felony that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against property or against the person of another in violation of the laws of the United States, and under circumstances strongly corroborative of that intent, solicits, commands, induces, or otherwise endeavors to persuade such other person to engage in such conduct, shall be imprisoned not more than one-half the maximum term of imprisonment or (notwithstanding section 3571) fined not more than one-half of the maximum fine prescribed for the punishment of the crime solicited, or both; or if the crime solicited is punishable by life imprisonment or death, shall be imprisoned for not more than twenty years.

Somehow that has gotten twisted to being protected “First Amendment” speech.

The Stone’s article goes on to say,

 … The American Medical Association has made a public statement referring to violence against transgender people an “epidemic…”

Being an “Out” trans woman I am concerned that some bigot will b egged on to attacking a trans people by his other bigots.