We Are Doing Nothing Wrong! Remember That!

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It is not us, but them; we were born this way! This is not a choice. We exist in every culture in the world. There are those who worship us; there are those who treat us as equals; and then, there are those who persecute us.

In recent history, we saw Germany go from accepting us to sending us to concentration camps in only a matter of years. Recently, in a span of only seventeen months, we went from being accepted to being threatened with the label of "terrorist."

It is we who are being beaten, threatened, and killed! What exactly have we done?

It is all lies! Everything they say or do against us is a lie. Just look at Kansas: they moved to revoke our driver's licenses. Out of approximately 2 million licensed drivers in the state of Kansas... only 1,800 were trans!

In sports, trans athletes are being called an "assault on women." So, how many trans athletes are there actually? In testimony before a U.S. Senate panel in December 2024, NCAA President Charlie Baker stated that he was aware of fewer than 10 transgender student-athletes among approximately 510,000 NCAA student-athletes nationwide.

It is not in the thousands; it is not even in the hundreds... it is around ten! Ten! One-Zero!

This political push to eradicate us is simply "transphobia" on a national level. We have seen efforts like this in countries such as Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, and Indonesia, where we can be jailed or worse. In Russia, Belarus, and Hungary, we are treated as criminals. The legal strategy is almost always the same: redefining "sex" as a rigid, narrow biological marker so that anyone who falls outside that box can be erased. Targeting a minority group is rarely just about the group itself; it is about consolidating power by creating a common enemy.

On the website A History of LGBT Criminalisation: Almost 500 years of outlawing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, they write...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have faced legal proscription for hundreds of years, initially under religious laws, in particular those imposed by the Abrahamic faiths, and later under secular legal codes, often drawing heavily on the theological traditions that preceded them. Legal codes first implemented in Europe proliferated during the colonial period. As the European powers expanded their control and influence over much of the world, they took their legal systems and the laws criminalising LGBT people with them, imposing them over diverse indigenous traditions where same-sex activity and gender diversity did not always carry the same social or religious taboo.

For us, the trans community they write,

Prohibition Against 'Cross-Dressing'

In 1893, the prohibition against ‘cross-dressing’ for an improper purpose was enacted in Guyana. It took until 2018 for the law to eventually be repealed (see below).

To this day, at least 15 jurisdictions across Africa, Asia and the Middle East still impose criminal sanctions against people whose gender expression does not align with their sex as assigned at birth, using laws that criminalise so called ‘cross-dressing’, disguise, impersonation and/or imitation.

There are two principal historical sources of such laws. In the cases of Guyana, the Gambia and South Sudan, these laws were inherited from British colonial rulers who exported the sumptuary laws that were used to control attire according to occupation, class and gender, resting on a largely Christian ideal of social propriety and morality.

For other states, the criminalisation of gender expression under such ‘cross-dressing’ provisions is rooted in Sharia Law applied in addition to, or in the absence of a statutory criminal provision. For example, section 198(1) of Brunei’s Syariah Penal Code Order 2013, which sanctions “any man who dresses and poses as a woman” and “any woman who dresses and poses as a man”, is broadly used to harass transgender people. Those convicted under this provision are liable to face a fine of up to B$1,000, imprisonment of up to three months, or both.

Basically, the laws against us are a throwback to the 1800s! Mother Nature is being shoved into a box built centuries ago by people who didn't even have a basic understanding of modern genetics or AIS.

It is not us... but them. It is not us... but their bigotry. It is not us... but their quest for power—and their refusal to care who gets crushed in the process.

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