[thread 2/x] transphobia
3/x https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113873070027605000
1/x https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113126756218775408
State of transphobia, U.S. ~2022
* waves of anti-trans state legislature model bills
* Ron DeSantis' viciously transphobic campaigns ...
https://persagen.org/html/intro_01.html
https://persagen.org/html/intro_01.html#/23
https://persagen.org/html/intro_01.html#/32
#GOP #Trump2 #fascism #Project2025
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #ParentalRightsMovement
#Christofascism #transgenocide
#FamilyResearchCouncil #LibsOfTikTok #MomsForLiberty #AcPEDs
#WomensRights #misogyny
Republicans Spent $215M on TV Ads Attacking Trans Rights This Election
https://truthout.org/articles/republicans-spent-nearly-215m-on-tv-ads-attacking-trans-rights-this-election
* $134 / trans person in anti-trans ad spending: civil rights attorney Alejandra Caraballo
Transgender Americans brace for Trump presidency after anti-trans rhetoric
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trans-americans-trump-1.7376153
* continual false claims about trans people
* campaign spent millions on anti-trans attack ads
* despite trans people <1% U.S. popul'n
* ACLU: 531 anti-LGBTQ bills across U.S. in 2024
https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights-2024
https://persagen.org/html/intro_01.html#/23
2024-Sep Gallup poll: trans rights rank last among 22 key issues influencing voters
https://news.gallup.com/poll/651719/economy-important-issue-2024-presidential-vote.aspx
"Trans people, we know how to fight. ..."
How wildly successful anti-trans ads fired up Texas' Republican voters
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/08/transgender-ads-motivate-texas-republicans
* barrage of attack ads, focus on trans kids playing youth sports
* Democrats struggled to respond
* fact that Texas’ senate candidates argued about youth sports rather than economy, immigration, future of democracy was a Republican victory
Comment - that's the plan:
* social media attacks go viral amplifying hate
* "trump" weak, reactionary responses
Florida education officials: 100s books pulled f. school libraries
https://apnews.com/article/book-bans-education-florida-desantis-censorship-schools-b4647f7709d06ae7780dd03003dfcd90
* FL state law empowers parents/residents to challenge school library books
* requires districts to submit annual report to state detailing restricted schoolbooks
* FL leads U.S. in pulling books f. school libraries
#AmericanLibraryAssociation #ALA #PENamerica
#Florida #DeSantis #censorship #education #antiLGBT #transphobia #homophobia #ParentalRightsMovement #M4L #LibsOfTikTok #fascism #Christofascism
Trump2 an existential threat to trans health
https://www.salon.com/2024/11/15/experts-say-is-a-to-trans-health-his-next-term-is-already-alarming-the-queer-community
"You are not safe anywhere”
* trans p. devastated/terrified re: limited access to medications/trans health care
* Trump1 notoriously enacted anti-LGBTQ policies
facilitating discrimination based on gender identity
ban on trans troops
housing trans/ intersex inmates based on birth assignment
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025
#Christofascism #Gilead #misogyny
#antiLGBT #transphobia #ParentalRightsMovement
What comes next for trans people?
https://19thnews.org/2024/11/lgbtq-trans-issues-trump-second-term
* 2SLGBTQIA+ prepping for this moment for years
* unlike 2016, strategies re: Trump2 administration
* We’re ready: civil rights organization Transgender Law Center
* “We did extensive scenario planning, int/ext. We did safety planning internally. We did scenario planning ...”
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025
#Christofascism #Gilead #misogyny
#antiLGBT #transphobia #ParentalRightsMovement
#TLC #TransgenderLawCenter
U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace Attacks Trans Colleague
https://newrepublic.com/post/188582/nancy-mace-fight-anti-trans-bathroom-bill-sarah-mcbride
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/19/nx-s1-5196116/capitol-transgender-bathroom-ban-nancy-mace-sarah-mcbride
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Mace
* Nov 2024 auth. anti-trans bathroom bill
* preemptive attack on Sarah McBride, 1st trans member of Congress
* descr. McBride as "biological man trying to force himself into women's spaces" & "guy in a skirt"
Anti-trans bathroom meme
https://persagen.org/docs/transgender_bathroom_meme.html
#USpol #SarahMcBride https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_McBride
#NancyMace #antiLGBT #transphobia
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism
#Christofascism
House Republicans support bathroom ban access for 1st transgender member
https://apnews.com/article/sarah-mcbride-speaker-johnson-transgender-bathroom-ed5a6d74963f58dcd92fbd65274264e3
* U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson supports effort
* ban: trans Democrat Sarah McBride
Comment: GOP party in full force at last UFC/MSG event
#UFC #DanaWhite #KidRock #Christofascism #JonJones
#MikeJohnson #TulsiGabbard #ElonMusk #JoeRogan #MichaelChandler
#Trump2 #GOP #NancyMace #fascism #transphobia #SarahMcBride
VIDEO: transphobe Nancy Mace (R-SC) in her own words #ignorance #hatred #populism
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson supports barring trans congressional Rep f. women's bathrooms in U.S. Capitol
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/johnson-mcbride-congress-republicans-capitol-bathrooms-1.7388058
* anti-transgender bathroom ban/resolution by Nancy Mace (R-SC)
COMMENT: Mike Johnson was a former attorney at the viciously transphobic Alliance Defending Freedom
persagen.org >>
"mike johnson" AND transphob*
"alliance defending freedom" AND transphob*
Trans community resolved to persevere through another Trump presidency
https://truthout.org/articles/trans-community-prepares-to-persevere-through-another-trump-presidency
reposted: https://truthout.org/articles/trans-community-prepares-to-persevere-through-another-trump-presidency/
* leaders of the movement remind trans people of their long history of resilience and resistance
“We come from a lineage of resilience,” said Erin Reed, an independent reporter on transgender political issues in Washington, D.C.
Dora Richter
Sylvia Rivera
Marsha P. Johnson
Christine Jorgensen
House Speaker Mike Johnson Announces Transgender Bathroom Ban - On Trans Day of Remembrance
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/congress-trans-bathroom-ban-johnson-mace
* he & Nancy Mace tag team their transphobia ahead of arrival of 1st openly trans member of Congress Sarah McBride
Mike Johnson responds to election of trans lawmaker by banning her f. Capitol bathrooms
https://www.salon.com/2024/11/20/mike-johnson-responds-to-of-trans-lawmaker-by-banning-her-from-capitol-bathrooms
* Sarah McBride: trans woman representing Delaware in House of Rep.
Proposed Bathroom Ban on U.S. Federal Properties: Impact Trans Folks
https://truthout.org/articles/how-the-proposed-bathroom-ban-on-federal-properties-could-impact-trans-folks
* experts weigh in on whether such a ban is legal
* if passed, how enforced?
Comments:
* democratic backsliding
* Christian right / misogynistic wedge strategy
* other civil rights/liberties will fall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_genocide
#USpol #GOP #Trump2 #MikeJohnson #NancyMace #Project2025 #fascism
#Christofascism #ChristianRight #antiLGBT #transphobia
#transgenocide #TransgenderGenocide #TransRights
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signs transgender bathroom ban bill into law
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/11/27/ohio-gov-mike-dewine-signs-transgender-bathroom-ban-bill-into-law
* bans transgender students f. using school bathrooms/locker rooms matching their gender identity
* gender assigned at birth
* American Medical Association opposes policies preventing trans persons f. accessing basic human services/public facilities consistent w. gender identity
#transgender #TransRights
#Ohio #GOP #MikeDeWine #fascism #Trumpism #Christofascism
#transphobia #transgenocide #disinformation
[Scotland] UK Supreme Court legal challenge over how ‘woman’ defined in law
https://apnews.com/article/uk-supreme-court-trans-gender-case-cf2bbc911c59b147a5261f431ee93eb7
* dispute betw. women’s rights campaign group, Scottish gov
* transphobic For Women Scotland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Women_Scotland
* whether trans person w. gender certificate as female regarded as woman under equality laws
* Amnesty International: written intervention
* concerned about deterioration of trans rights in U.K./abroad
What it means to prepare for the future of trans health care under Trump
https://19thnews.org/2024/12/wpath-president-trans-health-care-trump
* Dr. Asa Radix, president, World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
* importance of protecting gender-affirming care in Trump2 administration
* MDs will decide that they will follow the law & not provide trans healthcare
* driving trans HC underground
* fund. excluding trans people f. all health care
* trans folx need evidence-based, high-quality care
Trans activists stage bathroom sit-in at Capitol Hill
https://19thnews.org/2024/12/capitol-hill-bathroom-trans-protest
* shift in 2SLGBTQIA+ activism pre-Trump2 admin.
* exp. to enact harsh anti-2SLGBTQIA+ policies
U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace Attacks Trans Colleague
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113511480682689496
House GOP support bathroom ban access for 1st transgender member
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113512406662123646
House Speaker Mike Johnson Announces Transgender Bathroom Ban On Trans Day of Remembrance
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113517187330417619
Nancy Mace doubles down on anti-trans hate after alleged assault [she lied: make it up]
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/nancy-mace-says-she-will-double-down-on-anti-trans-hate-after-protestor-injures-her-arm-in-assault
* Mace accused of orchestrating self-serving publicity stunt
* 3 eyewitnesses accuse Mace of manufacturing the assault
* Mace & McIntyre shared nothing more than standard handshake while he asked the Congresswoman to protect trans rights
#USpol #NancyMace #antiLGBT #transphobia #liar
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #USCongress
#Christofascism #transgenocide #HateCrimes #hatred #discrimination
Pastor sneaks anti-trans speech into school board mtg; iinstantly shot down
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/pastor-snuck-anti-trans-speech-into-school-board-meeting-he-was-instantly-shot-down
* notorious book ban advocate disrupted Murfreesboro TN school board mtg
* N.C. pastor John Amanchukwu campaigns against transgender rights, abortion, critical race theory
* supported by Board Educ. member Caleb Tidwell, who led book ban efforts
* escorted out by police as audience applauded
#transgender #TransRights
#USpol #GOP #Trump2 #fascism #authoritarianism
#Christofascism #transgenocide
TX voters oust viciously anti-trans city council trio; elect gay council member
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/voters-oust-visciously-anti-trans-city-council-trio-elect-the-citys-first-gay-councilmember
* voters in Odessa, Texas overwhelmingly rebuked city’s anti-trans policies
* replaced 3 city council members who supported infamous bathroom ban
* elected Odessa’s first-ever gay council member
* want council members who fix their problems, not fearmonger
#OdessaTX #TransRights
#Texas #GOP #GregAbbott #antiLGBT #transphobia
#Christofascism #ParentalRightsMovement #transgenocide
Squid Game creator: ‘impossible’ to cast trans actor as trans character
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/squid-game-creator-says-it-was-impossible-to-cast-a-trans-actor-as-season-twos-trans-character
https://www.tvguide.com/news/squid-game-director-trans-season-2-character-casting
* criticism over casting of cisgender man to play trans woman
* “near impossible” to find out trans performer in South Korea
Transgender people in South Korea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_people_in_South_Korea#Attitudes_towards_transgender_people
Disney cuts trans storyline over fears of parental backlash
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113671021053412562
Transgender trailblazer Sarah McBride's Congressional debut, with grace ️
https://apnews.com/article/sarah-mcbride-congress-transgender-lgbtq-delaware-9cce7f778e6b57dfdb08986d7410404e
* 1st openly trans U.S. state senator
* easily won seat in U.S. House Rep.
* will follow rules: “I’m not here to fight about bathrooms”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_McBride
U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace Attacks Trans Colleague
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113511480682689496
Bathroom ban
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113512406662123646
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113517187330417619
#USpol #SarahMcBride
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #NancyMace #antiLGBT #transphobia
#Christofascism #transgenocide
Capitol Hill Bathroom Ban not in GOP House Rules Proposal
https://www.them.us/story/house-republicans-bathroom-rules-nancy-mace-sarah-mcbride
* U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC)'s transphobic policy nowhere in GOP annual U.S. Congress proposal
Nancy Mace’s anti-trans bathroom ban not in House rules package
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/nancy-maces-anti-trans-bathroom-ban-not-included-in-house-rules-package/
Sarah McBride (D-DE) departs Delaware to serve in the nation’s capital
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/sarah-mcbride-departs-delaware-to-serve-in-the-nations-capital
#USpol #GOP #Trump2 #fascism #NancyMace #MikeJohnson #authoritarianism #transphobia
#Christofascism #SaraMcBride #transgenocide
Dr. Rachel Levine focused on job at HHS. Anti-trans politics followed her
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/06/nx-s1-5235449/dr-rachel-levine-hhs-public-health-service-anti-transgender-laws
* 2021 only Arkansas banned gender-affirming care for youth
* 2021+ anti-trans legislation exploded
Rachel Levine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Levine
* Am. pediatrician
* U.S. Assist. Sec. Health 2021+
* admiral, U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps
* USA Today's women of the year 2022
#transgender #RachelLevine #HHS
#transphobia #GOP #hate
#Trump2 #fascism #antiLGBT
#Christofascism #transgenocide
U.S. House Speaker Johnson Implements Trans Bathroom Ban
https://www.them.us/story/house-speaker-mike-johnson-nancy-mace-trans-bathroom-ban
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/gop-introduces-bill-to-let-people-sue-trans-folks-for-using-the-bathroom
https://truthout.org/articles/transgender-bathroom-ban-takes-effect-in-house-controlled-capitol-spaces
* House-controlled Capitol Spaces
* many trans visitors to U.S. House say they won't comply w. anti-trans bathroom policy
[2025-Jan-03] Capitol Hill Bathroom Ban not in GOP House Rules Proposal
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113765617061511158
#USpol #SaraMcBride #GOP #Trump2 #fascism #NancyMace #MikeJohnson #authoritarianism #Project2025 #transphobia
#Christofascism #transgenocide #hatred
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signs dozens of bills, including LGBTQ+ ‘forced outing’ bill
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/01/09/ohio-gov-mike-dewine-signs-dozens-of-bills-including-lgbtq-forced-outing-bill
* require schools to notify parents if child identifies as 2SLGBTQIA+
* allows parents to opt out of “sexuality” content
* homophobic/transphobic
#USpol #Ohio #GOP #MikeDeWine #antiLGBT #homophobia #transphobia
#ChristianRight #Christofascism #transgenocide
GOP lawmaker says trans bathroom ban must pass to stop lesbians f. “getting off” in women’s room
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/gop-lawmaker-says-trans-bathroom-ban-must-pass-to-stop-lesbians-from-getting-off-in-womens-room
*bizarre accusation that trans lesbians enjoy listening to others "going potty"
* bill passed
#USpol #Montana #WomensRights
#Trump2 #GOP #RepublicanParty #fascism #MAGA #FarRight #Project2025
#ChristianRight #transphobia #antiLGBT #ParentalRightsMovement #BathroomBans
#Christofascism #Catholicism #transgenocide
#FamilyResearchCouncil #FRC #LibsOfTikTok #MomsForLiberty #M4L
Montana Becomes 1st State to Advance 2025 Anti-Trans Bathroom Legislation
https://www.them.us/story/montana-first-state-advance-anti-trans-bathroom-legislation-2025
* bill claims that “exactly 2 sexes"
* restricts bathrooms, changing rooms, sleeping areas in public buildings
#USpol #Montana #WomensRights
#Trump2 #GOP #RepublicanParty #fascism #MAGA #FarRight #Project2025
#ChristianRight #transphobia #antiLGBT #ParentalRightsMovement #BathroomBans
#Christofascism #Catholicism #transgenocide
#FamilyResearchCouncil #FRC #LibsOfTikTok #MomsForLiberty #M4L
@persagen
Hope Ohio is putting together a fund to pay students beaten up in bathrooms.
@persagen hurting minorities while hurting majorities: The Republican party
Nancy Mace
once again makes
allegations and accusations
to upgrade her situation
with those who peddle grievance
as she turns sour grapes into whine
under the guise of crime
and political victim expedience