Why Do They Hate Us?

It is something that I just don’t understand, what motivates their hate for us?

Is it just because we are different from them?

Is it because they think that it will get them votes in an election?

But whatever it is, it is spreading just like a virus.

EDITORIAL: Hungarian transgender legislation is dehumanizing
Similar bills could make their way to America
By The Daily Targum*
April 27, 2020

In headlines across the globe the words “coronavirus” or “pandemic" dominate, so naturally, news unrelated to the crisis at hand slips under the radar. One example of this is Hungary, which, outside of forming an increasingly autocratic government, is apparently ready to marginalize its transgender people further.

“Hungary’s (R)ightwing government looks likely to push through legislation that will end the legal recognition of trans people by defining gender as ’biological sex based on primary sex characteristics and chromosomes’ and thus making it impossible for people to legally change their gender,” according to The Guardian.

This is, obviously, devastating for the people of Hungary. There are many forms that discrimination against trans people can take, and they are all vile and reprehensible, but outlawing their very status of legitimacy is among the worst possible acts — truly, a government-sponsored hate crime — used to alienate them.

We are such a small community roughly 0.5 percent of the population is trans, how can we be a threat to society? And it comes back to the question of “Why” do they hate us. We just want to live our lives, is that so bad that they are passing laws against us?

America is a big place, occupied by different states with different social values. All it takes is one state — as we have seen with the Texas abortion debacle — to define gender in the discriminatory terms that Hungary has opted to do for us all to be vulnerable. Rightfully, any law of that sort would be challenged, likely to the upper echelon that is the Supreme Court, at which point a conservative bench would hold the fate of trans Americans in their judicial grip.

Trans people, a community which may include your friends, family, romantic partner or otherwise, will be essentially deemed second class citizens under the umbrella of law. They would be effectively erased.

I just don’t understand. The Republicans...

They hate trans people, gays, Bi’s, and Lesbians.

They hate Jews and Muslims.

They hate immigrants.

They are a party of hate!

When you stop and think what the Republicans stand for it is all negative. If you heard what Senate Majority leader McConnell said about bailing out states it was hateful. When you see protests what does the right wing protests look like? In one photograph from Wisconsin a protester has his finger on the trigger guard… Why?

What is the mindset behind occupying a state capitol with assault weapons, Confederate and Nazi flags? The only thing that comes to mind is that they want to threaten and intimidate the legislators.

This goes for all marginalized groups, too. Just because you are not trans, does not mean this does not affect you. Any discrimination must be taken as an absolutely personal offense, if not out of empathy, then out of the realization that it will only be so long until the government comes for you or someone you love next. There is no excuse not to vehemently oppose discriminatory actions, and refusing to stand up against them, even in small ways, is an act of bystanding cowardice.

And their hate is spreading around the world.

*Targum is the campus newspaper of Rutgers University.

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Update: Noon

I just came across this article about Trump’s press secretary…

Trump’s new press secretary believes trans bathrooms use is a threat to children
Gay Star News
By Tris Reid-Smith
April 9, 2020

Donald Trump’s new press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has a long track record speaking against the LGBT+ community.

Trump’s administration named McEnany as its new White House press secretary this week.

She is the fourth press secretary in less than three years and three months since he started his presidency. She follows Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Stephanie Grisham in the role.

Now LGBT+ US organization GLAAD has analysed her track record on LGBT+ issues. They found McEnany has regularly argued in the media against LGBT+ equality.

Trans bathroom use would cause ‘voyeurism’
In particular, they found McEnany opposed transgender people’s right to use the bathroom that matches their gender.

She pushes the stupid myth that somehow rapists will buy women’s clothes to sneak in a women’s bathroom instead of just walking right in.

She said: ‘I do believe there is a viable argument, not that transgender individuals pose any harm, but that this could be utilized by some men, for instance, to go into female bathrooms, it’s happened at Target, which does have the same policy in place.

Notice how this argument goes… it is not us she worries about but rather someone nefarious using the laws to go into a women’s bathroom, something that has never happened in all the years since the trans non-discrimination was passed in 1975.