Pounding Us Down.

It seems like one blow after another are pounding us down. The anti-trans laws and anti-LGBTQ laws are just being heaped on us one after another.

Baseless anti-trans claims fuel adoption of harmful laws – two criminologists explain

The Conversation

By Henry F. Fradella and Alexis Rowland

June 5, 2023

It has been seven years since North Carolina made headlines for enacting a “bathroom bill” – legislation intended to prevent transgender people from using restrooms that align with their gender identity.

After boycotts threatened to cost the state more than US$3.7 billion, legislators repealed the law in 2017. Since then, however, religious and political conservatives have successfully spread an anti-trans moral panic, or irrational fear, across the United States.

As far back as 2001, Republican lawmakers proposed the first of what are now nearly 900 anti-LGBTQ+ bills. More than 500 of these were introduced in 49 state legislatures and the U.S. Congress during the first five months of 2023. To date, at least 79 have passed.

Many of these anti-trans laws are written and financed by a group of far-right interest groups, including the Alliance Defending Freedom, the Family Research Council, the Liberty Counsel and the American Principles Project.

Note: all but American Principles Project are listed as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

These groups claim their proposed laws would protect cisgender women and girls – those whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth – from the sorts of violent trans people that are often depicted in movies and other media.

But as criminologists, we know these claims are without merit. No reliable data supports the argument that transgender people commit violent crimes at higher rates than cisgender men and women. In fact, transgender people are more than four times as likely to be the victim of a crime as cisgender people.

The conservatives believe that somehow being trans degrades women. That somehow the purity of women are being lessen, for them a woman’s place is in the kitchen and pregnant.

A variety of myths, false narratives, bad science, misconceptions and outright misrepresentations undergird anti-trans laws. The reality, however, is that trans-exclusionary laws do not protect cisgender women and girls from harassment or violence. Rather, they result in dramatic increases in violent victimization for transgender and gender-nonconforming adults and children.

When laws permit transgender people to access sex-segregated spaces in accordance with their gender identities, crime rates do not increase. There is no association between trans-inclusive policies and more crime. As one of us wrote in a recent paper, this is likely because, just like cisgender folks, “transgender people use locker rooms and restrooms to change clothes and go to the bathroom,” not for sexual gratification or predatory reasons.

But that doesn’t fit their narrative, they want to portray us as lurking in the bathrooms to pounce innocent little girls.

The right-wingers know the truth but they don’t want the truth because it doesn’t mobilize their base so they want to demonize us.

The criminological research is clear that anti-trans laws do not help the people they are claimed to protect. In fact, these laws inflict harm on people who are even more vulnerable.

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Should this be happening here in the United States; people fleeing their states because of unjust laws? This is something right out of the Jim Crow laws era! It started in the south and spread to the other Republican states like the plague did.

'Genocidal': Transgender people begin to flee states with anti-LGBTQ laws

Laws restricting gender-affirming care have prompted some families to move.

ABC News

By Kiara Alfonseca

June 11, 2023

When Texas officials announced their intentions to launch child abuse investigations involving people who provide gender-affirming care for their transgender children, Susan’s heart dropped.

Susan has a 7-year-old transgender daughter, Elsa, whose parents asked that she be referred to by a pseudonym for safety reasons, who they say may one day need such care.

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Susan and her husband Brian, who asked that their last names not be used for safety reasons, decided the family needed to move out of Texas in light of the child abuse investigation threats. They say they weren’t sure how far the government would go to separate families like their own or affect Elsa’s access to care as she gets older.

Her family is not alone. Across the country, advocacy groups say some families are packing up and moving out of their home states that have implemented anti-LGBTQ legislation to get to a place with greater protections for the community, according to queer advocacy groups nationwide.

Should parents have to flee in fear of the safety of their children? Is that what our country is coming to?

Also did you notice that contrary to the Republican lies their child is not getting hormones,  contrary to the Republican lies their child is not getting puberty blockers? That it is just social transition.

“The breaking point was definitely when I called my doctor to get my routine blood test and she ended up telling me that because of new legislation, they can’t provide gender-affirming care to LGBT patients anymore,” Chelf said.

This is not about protecting the children because we know that denying them healthcare is detrimental to our life long health. This is all about control and political power!

This is also from the party that wants to get government out of our lives and sees no problem with government stepping between us and our doctors!