The organized anti-trans movement is propelled by extremists

If you're just noticing that organized transphobia is exterminationist and bad in other extremist ways, welcome.

"GOP operatives spent an astounding $222 million on anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ advertising in the 2024 cycle — more than on housing, immigration and the economy combined. Since Inauguration Day, the drumbeat of discriminatory actions and executive orders against trans Americans has made my heart race and kicked my anxiety into overdrive. The White House has refused to issue passports reflecting applicants’ gender identities, attacked providers of gender-affirming care, banned trans service members from the military, prevented schools from supporting students who transition, eliminated protections against spying on LGBTQ+ citizens, regulated bathroom use, benched trans kids from sports, transferred trans women into men’s prisons and targeted LGBTQ+ civil servants. It has also deleted references to trans and nonbinary people on government websites from the State Department and CDC to the Park Service’s page for the Stonewall National Monument."
— Ali Moss, "The Nazis Made A Horrifying Move In 1933. I'm Terrified Trump Is Now Doing The Exact Same Thing.: Until recently, the question remained theoretical. But it’s not an exaggeration to say that President Trump is running plays straight out of Hitler’s playbook." HuffPost, Mar 23, 2025

Zinnia Jones gave us some resources:

It's seeming like a lot of people have gotten into a moment of reconsideration, and when they're shown simple documentation of things like (genderanalysis.net/2024/01/stil...), they've started to be like "whoa" - they just hadn't engaged with how violent the exterminationism of transphobia really is

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— Zinnia Jones 🐍🔆 (@zinniajones.com) March 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM

They're in the process of being shown that people like this (trans.cx/2025/03/08/d...) are actually placed right at the heart of anti-trans policy groups and movements, and behind the 'reasonable concerns', they're calling us "petulant toddlers in castrated grown men's bodies", which is just hateful

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— Zinnia Jones 🐍🔆 (@zinniajones.com) March 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM

[cw: csa] They're now finding out that Stephen Levine, who contributed heavily to writing the mandatory HRT "consent" forms in Florida for trans adults that we now have to sign, dismissed "hysteria" over a Catholic priest molesting a minor and ejaculating onto him: transgender.agency/files/levine...

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— Zinnia Jones 🐍🔆 (@zinniajones.com) March 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM

And they're surprised and even astonished that transphobes' preferred mode of discourse over scientific hypotheses is the revenge porn: bsky.app/profile/zinn...

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— Zinnia Jones 🐍🔆 (@zinniajones.com) March 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM

I've specifically seen people be disturbed that two DeSantis appointees, still serving on Florida's Boards of Medicine, were selected following their letter about a trans teenager being psychiatrically institutionalized for forced conversion therapy for *two years* genderanalysis.net/2023/01/flor...

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— Zinnia Jones 🐍🔆 (@zinniajones.com) March 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM

And following on from that, they were often unsatisfied with one of those appointees, the second author of the forced consent forms Dr. Monica Mortensen, and her evasive answers about right and wrong when presented with my actual complaint to the boards during her deposition bsky.app/profile/zinn...

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— Zinnia Jones 🐍🔆 (@zinniajones.com) March 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM

Something has started tilting people into a somewhat more empathic-prone mode, and it's starting to be inclusive of abuses that have happened to trans people as potentially relatable to abuses that could happen to cis people, and that seems like a new connection that I'm seeing many cis people make

— Zinnia Jones 🐍🔆 (@zinniajones.com) March 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM

They don't always win, but this is what they try:

JUST IN: I was watching an Anchorage school board race tonight, because candidate Alexander Rosales had a history of transphobic statements like “Ban trans kids.” He is losing handily in the first waves of returns. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

— Taniel (@taniel.bsky.social) April 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM

Read my essay too

Gay and Trans Freedom Is Everyone’s Freedom: Be who you are, choose your path, and let’s do it together. A big reason to support LGBTQ rights. Tucker Lieberman, Prism & Pen, Feb 22, 2024