In the current cultural and political landscape, LGBTQ people — and especially transgender and nonbinary people — face an onslaught of attacks, including extraordinary levels of inflammatory, false, dehumanizing rhetoric.Anti-LGBTQ media figures, political leaders, and others are enlisting classic fear-mongering tactics: propagating malicious harmful lies and bigotry to target a historically marginalized group of people with false, dehumanizing narratives. All in an effort to retract the basic civil and human rights of transgender people, while attempting to consolidate political power and distract from real issues. These current campaigns are spelled out in the extreme-right agenda of Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation’s 2021 so-called “Promise to America’s Children.” They include attempts to: ban essential health care for trans youth and adults; eliminate participation in sports; prohibit access to bathrooms and other public facilities; prevent access to accurate state and federal identity documents; endanger trans inmates by incarcerating them in institutions inconsistent with their gender identity; dismantle basic civil rights including housing and workplace discrimination protections and military service; as well as restricting freedom of expression by suppressing and even criminalizing books, education, and culture by and about LGBTQ people.
The Republicans are trying to wipe us out by making it illegal to even talk about us in schools, just like Putin did in Russia (BBC News)
The article goes on and notes the terminology used by the Republicans:
- “Gender Ideology” and “Transgenderism”
- Intentional Mischaracterizations of Transgender Health Care
- Misleading Narratives About Transgender People and Restrooms, Locker Rooms, and Single-Sex Spaces
- Transgender Participation in Sports
- False Claims of “Grooming”
- “Trans Terrorism” and Other False Claims in High-Profile Crimes
- So-Called “Transvestigations” of Public Figures
The lies are to demonize us, to make us less than human! I worry about what's down the line for us.
Though I’m an inactive member of the Stonewall Speakers, I used to still get requests to speak. Now? Almost nothing. Schools are afraid. Afraid that Trump is brandishing the sword of retribution above their heads, demanding they shut down anything LGBTQ+ — even our voices.
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