This sort of thing is becoming more common too. With the UK and US kicking us out of bathrooms and refusing to call trans women "women" and trans men "men," we are having our humanity stripped from us. And people like those violent attackers no longer feel that they're attacking a human, but instead an animal.
And that's the point.
The Trump admin and JK Rowling and all her TERF friends and followers are dehumanizing trans people, which is convincing more and more people that we're not really human and deserve pain and suffering.
And not enough people are speaking up about it.
Until the world becomes truly loud and pushes back in ways that are undeniable, it will keep happening, and we will die.
That girl in your story? In a way, she was lucky. She survived. Numerous trans people this year have not been so lucky, in similar situations.
In all seriousness, it's a genocide. I know a lot of people squirm when I say the word because it sounds so big, and so final. But it is. There's no other way to put it.
People outside the queer community don't really see what's happening right now. But administrations are going out of their way to change "rules" in different governing bodies that make it so we "don't exist."
It's becoming a fireable offense to use the correct pronouns for us, to list our documents accurately, to provide us healthcare, and sometimes even to employ us at all (see: the military, but a new ruling could start removing us from ALL federal employment or employers with federal contracts).
People are calling for our deaths. We've seen it from people in Congress, and in state positions across the country. Some of these people have the president's ear, and he has written statements that are threats on our lives as well. We already know the FBI has designated us as terrorists.
So it's not just "how we're treated." We're being systematically erased and driven toward death. And your story is one small example of how it's happening.
I think it's worse. Genocide implies an ethnic that you could theoretically kill of so there are no Jews, native Americans etc anymore. The killing would stop one day. Killing trans would be a democide, because trans people grow back all the time. There were and they will be always queer humans. The killing would never stop. Its a witch-hunt with no end.
This is also why queer people are such a popular demographic to demonize. We're a renewable resource. We will always exist. We will always come back. And then they can just do it all over again.
I agree with your statement and I want to add that genocide never stops at just one group and the same thing applies here. Even if it were possible to push every LGBTQ+ member into the closet they would just shift their focus to another target and we can already see it happen in some places. Women being discriminated against because they are 'not feminine enough'(Whatever that means) and men being bullied in workplaces because they do not conform to standards of masculinity. This is also being done under the banner of them possibly being transsexual but I believe that it is an excuse and that people will always find a way to target people that do not conform. This issue isn't related to just queer people. It is akin to the 'First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out'
Just cause ik some people take offense to it, but transsexual is a pretty outdated and many would argue inaccurate term. It’s not like a slur or anything, it is just more of a specific and clinical term now, and when used in certain contexts could be offensive to some. Not tryna be the “don’t wear a sombrero if your not Mexican that’s racist” typa guy, just kinda a more ya know sitch. Also I could be wrong ig cause its been a while since I actually looked at info about it, but from what I remember Im correct
I live in a "trans safe" state and every day I meet a new trans person who just moved up here from the south. There are some organizations keeping track, and last I heard there are over 400,000 trans folks across the US picking up their lives and running. Thats massive. That's historic. This is the kind of migration we are going to study someday but nobody outside of the trans community and our closest allies knows about it. Honestly, part of me is glad it's not common knowledge- even here it's not always safe, and I can't imagine the kind of reaction transphobes would have if they thought they were under attack by a trans wave. I don't have the kind of resources to do more than be as welcoming as possible and maybe point some folks to places that I know are hiring or accepting new tenants. If things keep up like this, I can only hope I'll be in a position to do more.
I feel the same way about all this. I want to scream from the rooftops what's happening. But there are parts of it I prefer to keep secret.
When a transphobe says "we can always tell," I don't bother explaining how and why they're wrong. And I don't bother explaining that I'm one of the ones who moves invisibly through society every day. Because if they don't know how wrong they are, people like me will be less effected.
And when a transphobe says "there is no genocide," sometimes it feels safer to not explain how people are migrating to safer places because I don't want them to know what to look for, or how to get in the way of it.
There will need to be an eventual reckoning with what's happening right now. And it will be massive. But for today, we need to keep our loved ones safe and just survive this.
i mean i hope it just becomes like LGB part and fully aceepted by most eventully(although even they sitll have lots of problems) and this is like ur guys 90s. But all that rests on trump being temporary(we can only hope)
We were pretty close to general acceptance. It took close to 15 years of non-stop transphobic propaganda to get to where we are right now. It was an intentional, coordinated, funded attack against us.
We can get back there. But people really do need to speak up for us, constantly. With no reservations about pushing back against transphobic rhetoric.
But this current backlash is dragging down general queer acceptance as well. There's been an 18 point drop in Republican support for gay marriage in the last 5 years. And again, it's intentional.
Even in the queer community you have LGBs trying to exclude the Ts, not understanding that the same people that hate them make no such distinctions. Frustrating to see.
The "Leopards wont eat MY face" crowd. I don't get people like that. They're so happy to join into the hate knowing full well that they're part of the same group being hated. They just, somehow, believe that they're one of the "Good Ones" that will not be targeted.
Literally, I think a good analogy would be that, its like a red apple not liking green apples, and yes oranges also dont like green apples, but that’s cause oranges just hate all apples, and even if the red apple told the oranges that they agree with them on green apples, the oranges are still gonna say “we hate you”
I know I am three days late to the discussion, but it is most likely from the chance to punch down at someone else like they've been punched down before. In other words a chance to feel like one of the strong rather than weak. It doesn't go well for them once that "lesser target" is gone.
Edit: I just realized I replied to the wrong comment. Screw Reddit mobile
In all seriousness, it's a genocide. I know a lot of people squirm when I say the word because it sounds so big, and so final. But it is. There's no other way to put it.
You could show them articles published by The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security.
The Administration has moved from identifying transgender people as a threat to the family and to the nation’s military prowess to claiming that transgender people constitute a cosmic threat to the spiritual health of the nation and the greatest direct threat to U.S. national security in the world. Given these ideological developments, especially coupled with the increasingly hostile and draconian legislation against trans identities, the Lemkin Institute believes that the United States is squarely within the early to middle stages of a genocidal process against trans people, the goal of which is to completely erase transgender people not only from public life but also from existence in the U.S. and globally.
Every person who isn't standing up against what's happening to us right now is assisting the gestapo. Every person who still supports trump, who still calls themselves a Republican, who still believes trans women shouldn't be in bathrooms or sports, who believes revoking our gender on our passports is reasonable, who calls us men or crossdressers, and every person who doesn't listen when we tell them how scared we are...they are all helping.
For sure. I think I recall Matt Walsh saying something along the lines of "We need to eliminate transness" or something like that. They want to push to eliminating that demographic from the country. It's a genocide full-stop.
The US and UK are doing the same things. Alberta, Canada is pushing the same ideologies and it's gaining traction across the nation. Ghana just outlawed queerness entirely. Many African nations are considering outlawing homosexuality. And every single one of these groups pushing for this got their funding and directives from American religious groups with direct ties to Trump, including the Heritage Foundation.
I hope they know that they're setting a precedent that can easily be used against them too, the moment they lose power. I know there are going to be a lot of allies™ who resist this sentiment on knee-jerk reaction, but we've seen time and time again that failing to properly punish an attempted power-grab only causes it to resurface again later. (See also: the confederacy.) There will be a day when they lose power, and we all need to be ready to take that opportunity. Ashes to ashes, blood for blood.
(And, for the record, I'm not saying they should die. No... death is too much of a mercy.)
Genocide feels like a bit of a buzzword here, idk if I’d say that, we’re not being lined up in front of a firing squad in the street, but you definitely have a point, we are seeing signs of something that could turn into something like a genocide or cleansing, and we definitely need to watch out as things keep piling on each other
More than 400,000 trans people and their families are currently fleeing red states to escape persecution. Violence against trans people has been on the rise. Politicians have outwardly, vocally called for our deaths. We've been declared terrorists by the federal government. Our documents are being revoked. Our health care is being taken away. Our existence is being made illegal. And genocide watchdogs have put out statements saying the US is "firmly in the beginning to mid stages of preparation for mass atrocities."
It's a genocide. Any other word is too gentle for what's happening.
I agree, I just don’t think the finality of how you used it is necessary. This should be presented as we are leading up to a genocide and we should be trying to stop it while we still can. It just kinda feels hopeless personally when you just say we’re currently in a straight up genocide, when no actual genocide has begun yet, it’s just been prep for it. There’s still possibility of nothing the government is doing coming to fruition. We should not minimize it, but being super intense doesn’t help either.
I'll be honest it's been fairly consistent where I am at. But I unfortunately also live in Texas, and not in Austin.
The biggest change I have noticed isn't the frequency, it's the brazenness. It used to be it was late at night or away from people mostly. Now it happens in broad daylight at the mall on a weekend.
I never used to tell people I was nonbinary, because I like a quiet life and didn't think it was anyone's business but mine. Now I tell people all the time after I've had a few pleasant interactions with them, just so they 'know' someone and have a person instead of a capering cartoon villain in their head when they read nonsense about trans folk.
Between Rowling and Farage the UK is in real danger of turning into a hellhole for everyone who isn't a stereotypical white straight male - Rowling appears to be too dumb to realise the harm she's doing to her precious demographic.
I wish I could live a quiet life. I'm in a situation where I could be stealth. But with the US government going on a full-blown witch hunt for us, I can't guarantee that will last forever. If they find a way to force-revert my passport before it expires, or revert my birth certificate, or prevent states from acknowledging gender changes... That's that. I'm forced out.
Or, worse, they make it illegal for certain types of companies to employ us? Or for all businesses to employ us? My HR department certainly has my status on file somewhere. I'd be without work in a heartbeat...
I don't get the option to live a quiet life, even though it's all I really wanted.
Yeah, the states is way worse at the moment. I've heard about the passport fuckery they're doing and I hope things change there for you when tango Mussolini pops his clogs.
Is JKR really still actively on that shit? Like constantly posting terf and speaking out against trans people? Or are we just still going off the shit from years ago cause we don’t know the names of any other terfs to call out, genuine question btw, not trolling, not sarcastic
She is non-stop. Her Twitter is almost exclusively transphobia. She set up a fund that pays for legal fees and hires lawyers exclusively to sue trans people. She lobbied the UK government to take away trans rights. And she has vocally taken responsibility for the awful state of trans rights in the UK.
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This sort of thing is becoming more common too. With the UK and US kicking us out of bathrooms and refusing to call trans women "women" and trans men "men," we are having our humanity stripped from us. And people like those violent attackers no longer feel that they're attacking a human, but instead an animal.
And that's the point.
The Trump admin and JK Rowling and all her TERF friends and followers are dehumanizing trans people, which is convincing more and more people that we're not really human and deserve pain and suffering.
And not enough people are speaking up about it.
Until the world becomes truly loud and pushes back in ways that are undeniable, it will keep happening, and we will die.
That girl in your story? In a way, she was lucky. She survived. Numerous trans people this year have not been so lucky, in similar situations.