They are just like little boys dressed up at playing army, with the mentality to go with it but what is scary it that they are carrying assault rifles.
Transgender Americans Feel Under Siege as Political Vitriol Rises
Language about pedophiles and “grooming” of young children has intensified a movement, reminiscent of campaigns dating to the 1970s, that seeks to turn transgender people into a political wedge.
New York Times
By Maggie Astor
December 10, 2022
Alejandra Caraballo is used to seeing anti-transgender hatred.As an L.G.B.T.Q. rights advocate and a transgender woman, she has received death threats, and her and her family members’ personal information has been published. When she goes to her favorite bar in New York, she sometimes wonders what she would do if someone came in shooting.
But last weekend, it became too much. Members of the Proud Boys and other extremist groups, many of them armed, converged outside a planned drag event in Columbus, Ohio. Neo-Nazis protested another event in Lakeland, Fla. There was an anti-L.G.B.T.Q. rally in South Florida, also attended by the Proud Boys. All of this just two weeks after the killing of five people — two of them transgender, a third gay — at an L.G.B.T.Q. club in Colorado Springs.
“I had a full panic attack and breakdown,” said Ms. Caraballo, a clinical instructor at the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School. “It’s one thing knowing there’s this extremist hate on the internet and seeing it in the abstract, and I can kind of compartmentalize. When this hate becomes manifested in real-life violence and there’s a celebration of it, is when it becomes too much to stomach.”
I fear that politicians will be stirring up more vitriol against us. I fear that there will be more armed protests, I fear that more of us will be killed. I fear that the hate mongers are stirring up the animus against us. I fear that Twitter and other social media will fan the flames of violence.
Since far-right social media activists began attacking Boston Children’s Hospital over the summer for providing care for transgender children, the hospital has received repeated bomb threats. Doctors across the country who do similar work have been harassed. The Justice Department charged a Texas man this month with threatening a Boston doctor; it also recently charged at least two others with threatening anti-gay or anti-transgender attacks.
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The rise in threats has accompanied an increasingly vitriolic political conversation.
Over the past couple of years, it has become routine for conservatives to liken transgender people and their allies to pedophiles, and to equate discussion of gender identity with “grooming” children for sexual abuse — part of an intensifying push, reminiscent of campaigns against gay rights dating back to the 1970s, to turn increasing visibility of transgender Americans into a political wedge.
They call us “groomers” but they are the ones who are grooming the children, they are the one who are teaching children to dislike those that are different from them, they are the ones who allow their children to bully others.
We have seen this before but without the violence and guns.
The false specter of child abuse has long been a way for anti-L.G.B.T.Q. campaigns to attract “people who otherwise would not join what they consider a homophobic movement,” said Eric Gonzaba, an assistant professor of American studies at California State University, Fullerton, and co-chair of the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History.
It gained prominence 45 years ago, when the singer Anita Bryant founded Save Our Children. Accusing gay people of “recruiting” children, the group persuaded voters in Miami-Dade County, Fla., to repeal an anti-discrimination ordinance months after it was passed. Then the movement took its case nationwide.
But now it is on steroids and they are armed!
What can you do?
Because it affects all of us, those that transitioned, those who just crossdress on weekends, those who dress in drag. You can’t just sit there and say it doesn’t affect me, you are just lying to yourself. As Harvey Milk said,
Gay brothers and sisters, 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.
Don’t be fooled it is right here in Connecticut, the Republicans talked about “parental rights” what that means to the Republicans is book banning, gagging teachers and students from talking about their lives, banning school Gay Straight Alliances (GSA).
“I think it’s unlikely that attitudes are going to become more negative over time,” Professor Fetner said. “That hasn’t been the pattern for any discriminatory attitude.”
But short term, the effects loom large.
People tend to become more accepting when they know L.G.B.T.Q. people personally. But Lindsey Clark, the deputy director for the Human Rights Campaign’s Transgender Justice Initiative, who is transgender and nonbinary, said it was hard to ask transgender people to reach out when doing so could put them in danger.
They are already for their attack on us in Congress, Reuters wrote,
U.S. Republicans in Congress are lining up behind legislation that critics say would roll back protections for transgender people, setting a playbook for action on a divisive social issue should they take control of Congress this fall.
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In the Senate, five Republicans have sponsored a version of the bill targeting medical providers, including Senators Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and Marco Rubio.
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