Read this first
A long, positive Twitter thread about trans kids (unrolled on Thread Reader App)
What if a child almost doesn't get assessed before transitioning?
What if a child grows up to be trans?
I mean, when they're an adult? What if they turn out to be a trans adult?
What if a child grows up to be trans, and we can't tell that they're trans because they took puberty blockers?
Transphobes want to be able to tell who's trans so that they can target us. They do not want trans people to accidentally or intentionally look cis. They don't want that outcome for us or them or the world. They want a world in which trans kids go through a puberty we don't want to go through and must spend years in adulthood modifying and disguising our bodies — working with whatever we've got — to look how we want to look.
They don't want to help us from childhood to look how we want to look in adulthood because they don't want to help us ever. They don't want us to have certain outcomes. They don't want to allow us to integrate in society. They don't want us to be happy with our own bodies. They don't want us to be able to say "my reproductive system isn't your business." They want our reproductive systems to be their business, in childhood and in adulthood, now and forever.
First:
"The Idaho House of Representatives...passed legislation to make it a crime punishable by life in prison for a parent to seek out gender-affirming health care for their transgender child." (NBC, March 9, 2022)
Update: Idaho passed the law in 2023, and the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed the law to take effect while two trans kids appeal it.
Even though cis kids are allowed to have gender-affirming surgeries:
Even though LGBTQ kids become suicidal over anti-queer legislation and rhetoric:
At the Arkansas gender affirming care ban trial, Dr. Hutchinson testified that 4 trans kids attempted suicide in the days following the passage of the legislation. There are very real human costs to targeting trans youth for political points. https://t.co/0PgnWeAlag
— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) October 19, 2022
Idaho is back with its worst anti-trans bills of the year.
— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) February 3, 2023
A new bill in Idaho would jail the parents of trans kids for 10 years if they receive gender affirming care.
This provision applies to anyone who "performs or authorizes."
H0071 is one of the cruelest bills yet. pic.twitter.com/C4TPqaVxFQ
An Idaho law "bans trans kids from using school facilities that align with their gender identity and offers children a $5,000 bounty for reporting trans students who use the restroom that matches their gender identity." (LGBTQ nation) It should go without saying that offering $5,000 to a child to allege that their classmate might be trans is not a way to get accurate information about who is trans or whether there are shenanigans in bathrooms, nor is it a way to protect trans kids or cis kids. It is a bounty. It encourages false allegations. Even if an allegation is true, it rewards students for transphobic attitudes and actions. It teaches them to police each other's genders. A federal judge temporarily blocked the law from taking effect a week before classes started.
Gerald Don Henderson, 72, was murdered. So was James L. Mauney, 83, in a separate incident. Police suspect "28-year-old Nicholas Umphenour and 31-year-old Skylar Meade, two members of the Aryan Knights prison gang who were later arrested by police in Twin Falls, Idaho..."
"Neo-Nazis kill 72-year-old gay man, leaving his partner heartbroken over 'senseless' murder" One of the neo-Nazis stayed with the gay couple as a teenager. Daniel Villarreal, LGBTQ Nation, March 26, 2024
This is becoming more and more common. People are showing up to school board meetings calling for the murder of LGBTQ people. This is what people like DeSantis, Libs of Tiktok, and Matt Walsh are stoking.https://t.co/h8r7KXhhD3 pic.twitter.com/pFmlAR1ClE
— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) October 13, 2022
A speaker at a school board meeting in Conway, Arkansas told a crowd of students last night their queer classmates "deserve death." The speaker was in support of a sweeping rollback of trans rights in the district and followed a trans student speaking against it. pic.twitter.com/iU66PDXtLa
— Gillian Branstetter (@GBBranstetter) October 12, 2022
Then:
"Idaho police...arrested 31 members of the Patriot Front hate group who planned to 'riot' at a Pride event in downtown Coeur d'Alene, officials announced...'They came to riot downtown,' Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White said at a news conference...'It appears they did not come here to engage in peaceful events,' Kootenai County Sheriff Robert Norris, told the Coeur d’Alene Press...Those arrested came from at least 11 states..." (Huff Post, June 11, 2022)
The group's leader had a seven-page document with an operational plan for the protest.
The goal of targeting gender-affirming care for kids isn't to protect kids. The goal is to make Nazis appear. Working as expected.
After the arrest, the police received death threats. Two days after the arrest, "Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White said...he [had] received a mix of 149 phone calls, half of which were 'hate and threats from elsewhere, including white supremacists, etc.' The other half of the calls were 'supportive calls from the Coeur D’Alene community.'" (HuffPost)
Just got off the phone with a source in LE.
— Brynn Tannehill (@BrynnTannehill) June 13, 2022
We narrowly avoided a massacre in Coeur d'Alene.
The 31 Patriot Front (read: white supremacist fascists responsible for Charlottesville) were planning for massive violence, not just confrontation. 1/n
The 31 PF members had blunt instrument weapons and were planning on bludgeoning people attending Pride. I'm told that most, if not all, also had concealed firearms. This was for dealing with anyone at who was armed, or fought back. 2/n
— Brynn Tannehill (@BrynnTannehill) June 13, 2022
Read the CNN explainer on Patriot Front, and also note:
This might not be an Idaho based group, but North Idaho (and the region) remains particularly attractive to people with far right ideas. Historically speaking, CDA is not far from the former compound of the Aryan Nations, which was vehemently opposed by locals.
— Leah Sottile (@Leah_Sottile) June 12, 2022
The ideas of Richard Butler are not gone, however. Hardly. N Idaho has been marketed in recent years as the American Redoubt - essentially a white Christian homeland, and a rebranding of Butler’s idea.
— Leah Sottile (@Leah_Sottile) June 12, 2022
Okay, trying again: to those asking why Patriot Front would target Pride: to the white power movement and some of the militant right, a host of social issues (abortion, gay rights, interracial contact, immigration, secularism) are all a problem for the same reason. (1)
— Kathleen Belew (@kathleen_belew) June 14, 2022
Follow-up: "Florida legislature passes ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy," by Lori Rozsa and Caroline Kitchener, Washington Post, April 13, 2023. DeSantis signed it.
If you wonder where people are getting their cues to violently target LGBTQ people. pic.twitter.com/JAhD2moCUk
— Alejandra Caraballo π΅π·π³️⚧️ (@Esqueer_) June 14, 2022
A transgender librarian was attacked in a public library in Boise, Idaho.
— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) November 1, 2022
This comes after multiple instances around the country of Proud Boys entering libraries and calling LGBTQ+ books "grooming."
This is the inevitable result. Violence against trans people and librarians. pic.twitter.com/hRPdVK7rti
North Dakota introduced HB 1205 that would ban all books from public libraries that include any depiction of trans or gay people in them. There will be a committee hearing next Tuesday, Jan 17 @ 9:30 am.https://t.co/il6FyYt96A pic.twitter.com/17RkQYIUTH
— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) January 13, 2023
1. Across the country, right-wing activists and politicians are pushing to ban hundreds of books from libraries.
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) April 13, 2023
It started off with school libraries, but now there are efforts to remove books from public libraries as well
Then they ran into a problem: The First Amendment
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Laws like this were the reality for decades, and it took years of work by trans + queer activists to change them. They were one of the most immediate ways that the state policed gender in public. https://t.co/kVbrQPTH7f
— National Center for Transgender Equality (@TransEquality) October 18, 2022
It went from "we're just concerned about women's sports" to "we want to ban all drag shows" in less than a year. Depending on the wording of the legislation, it could effectively criminalize being trans and/or gender non-conforming in public. https://t.co/tR65zplhGU pic.twitter.com/HRqsE6Lx7M
— Alejandra Caraballo π (@Esqueer_) October 18, 2022
By the way, as of October 2022 (this is an update), now we're here:
This is exactly what the Stonewall riots were about. The police raiding gay bars and arresting drag queens and trans people for not wearing clothes associated with their sex assigned at birth. That's effectively what the Idaho Family Policy Center wants.
— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) October 18, 2022
If you believe people need to be protected from their own trans-ness, as if it were an illness of which they needed to be cured, why do you also want to villainize or hurt those people? An insight from Susan Sontag: In the mid-19th century, people began to understand that illnesses were caused by microorganisms. No longer was there simply a person who was mysteriously ill; there was an identifiable enemy attacking that person, so to speak. This was when "medicine really began to be effective, and the military metaphors took on new credibility and precision. Since then, military metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of alien organisms, to which the body responds by its own military operations, such as the mobilizing of immunological ‘defenses,’ and medicine is ‘aggressive,’ as in the language of most chemotherapies." (Susan Sontag, AIDS and Its Metaphors (1989), Chapter 1)
Update: Proud Boys also showed up to protest at a Nevada library on June 26, 2022. The library was holding a drag queen story hour, and one of the men was openly carrying a gun (legal in Nevada) and approached the library. Proud Boys showed up at a California LGBTQ bar on June 30, 2022, harassing patrons at the door and making comments about "pedophiles." The bar had planned an all-ages drag show and had to postpone the event.
The scene of our wonderful Drag Queen Story Hour before it was horribly interrupted by “protestors” who invaded our space and screamed at children. We’re grateful for the families who stepped up and made sure the kids the wonderful Logan the Drag Queen were safe. 1/? pic.twitter.com/sI6aeoEH7t
— Loyalty Bookstores (@Loyaltybooks) July 16, 2022
On July 18, 2022, a candidate for Santa Rosa County School Board in Florida said in a public forum: "These doctors that are going along with mutilating these children and prescribing hormone blockers to these kids, in my opinion, they should be hanging from the nearest tree." People in attendance applauded her comment.
The Owner of Uprising Cafe and Bakery in Lake In The Hills says she is cancelling their planned drag show today after someone vandalized their business overnight. They’ve been receiving threats and harassment for weeks. She sent us these photos of the damage: @cbschicago pic.twitter.com/4ZEoSJSOPv
— Marissa Perlman (@MPerlmanNews) July 23, 2022
This was posted last night by a bar in Barrington pic.twitter.com/9cfDiJR3Us
— Dave Belford (@DavidBelford) July 23, 2022
π¨ South Bend, In π¨ Proud Boys are planning to interrupt a drag show tomorrow (Friday). Show up, bring a friend. pic.twitter.com/8A7gMJSyfj
— Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club (@EFJBGC) October 21, 2022
Proud Boys harassed drag performers this weekend - this time at a small town in Sanford, NC where a halloween drag brunch took place to fundraise for a local LGBTQ+ center.
— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) October 31, 2022
One wore a hat saying "shoot your local pedophiles" - given how they view LGBTQ+ people as pedophiles... pic.twitter.com/6EsCIREe1V
A donut shop was molotov-cocktailed for holding a drag event.
— Heron Greenesmith, Esq. π (@herong) November 3, 2022
A DONUT SHOP was MOLOTOV-COCKTAILED for holding a DRAG EVENT.
A DONUT SHOP WAS MOLOTOV-COCKTAILED FOR HOLDING A DRAG EVENT.
In the 2022 Arizona governor's race, Republican candidate Kari Lake tried to smear her opponent, Katie Hobbs, for "the crime of being married to a trauma therapist with a trans patient" (as Ari Drennen put it on X on November 4). Hobbs won, but barely. Lake presented this characterization of her opponent, Drennen said, "with the help of the Daily Wire and Charlie Kirk."
More on Charlie Kirk (by Vishal P. Singh, VPSReports, Jul 17, 2023): "The Groypers, a loose coalition of neo-Nazi internet trolls," showed up at Charlie Kirk's conference. "Over the weekend, Republicans and their increasingly radicalized base flocked to West Palm Beach in Florida for the annual conference hosted by Charlie Kirk and his influential media empire: Turning Point USA," along with the MAGA folk. The night before Trump's speech, "a crew of MAGA-faithful neo-Nazis called the Nationalist Network arrived on the scene." They're "a neo-Nazi streamer collective cosplaying as a militant movement. It’s somewhat of a splinter from Nick Fuentes and his Groypers, led by Ryan Sanchez, a disgraced former marine and member of the federally prosecuted neo-Nazi gang Rise Above Movement." After trying to network in-person at Turning Point on Friday night, they "went to nearby hotels with a simple plan: promote the flyer for a Groyper neo-Nazi party to as many young conservatives as they could. They live-streamed their activities up until the party began," and they were "indulging in a fantasy that 'antifa' was coming to fight them (nobody came to fight them). You know your party promotion is going well if you start wishing you were brawling with your political enemies instead." Of course: "Eventually, Nick Fuentes gave his big neo-Nazi speech as his young cultist followers pledged that they were willing to rape, kill, and die for Nick Fuentes." These aren't Charlie Kirk's people, not quite yet: "As the conference continued, Ryan Sanchez and his Nationalist Network boys ended up getting kicked out by security after harassing and surrounding a CNN journalist. For now: the mainstream of the Republican Party— while heavily motivated by white nationalism, isn’t ready to fully accept the Groyper culture yet. We’re still in the era of dogwhistles and innuendo with regards to the fascism of Trump’s party. But his young supporters are getting restless. And radicalization machines like Turning Point USA provide a nurturing space for eliminationist hate in the base."
In June 2024, Arturo Dominguez tells us about "former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke joining a protest on Sunday over the cancellation of the America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC)," which Fuentes founded. "It was canceled after it became known that the event was to be attended by dozens of antisemitic and racist influencers."
Follow-up on Thomas Homan who attended a Fuentes event in 2022.
That thing trans people warned you would happen? It’s happening.
— Crystal Frasier (@AmazonChique) October 5, 2022
We keep predicting this stuff exactly, and at some point I hope the cis community starts actually listening to us before things get even worse for you. https://t.co/jNjzvVq7W4
Tonight, there are unconfirmed reports coming out of Moore County, NC of three substations being shot up with firearms simultaneously to cut power to a drag show. Reportedly, nearly 40,000 people in Moore County are currently without power.
— charlotteclymer@mastodon.social (@cmclymer) December 4, 2022
See also
"Trans Kids Are Found in History, Too" (5-minute read) or "How the Far-Right Comes for Trans People" (4-minute read). Using these links get you around the paywall.
January 2023:
Grateful for @mxwfx’s astute statement of what feels obvious in this moment of panic: that what’s actually at stake is a dominating parental authority and their projected gender anxieties, not “children’s safety” (because trans people aren’t able to be children, as he notes) https://t.co/sD8s2ESigV pic.twitter.com/d5iqlpWMTj
— ZoΓ© (@ztsamudzi) January 22, 2023
Actress @Lavernecox on MSNBC's @Morning_Joe:
— Ari Drennen (@AriDrennen) January 19, 2023
"For years we've been hearing from anti-trans pundits and politicians that this is about children, that this is about protecting children, but this Oklahoma law reveals it's never been about the children." pic.twitter.com/IsTexNRwH7
Big study in @NEJM finds gender affirming care reduces anxiety and depression https://t.co/jgO3udTtmD
— Josh Wilson (@JoshWilsonDC) January 20, 2023
A federal judge has rejected a request by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to conduct “mental examinations” on a pair of 12-year-olds who are plaintiffs in a challenge to a state rule prohibiting Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care. 1/2https://t.co/QmgAnE02qH
— Rep. Anna V. Eskamani π¨ (@AnnaForFlorida) January 19, 2023
Queer and trans activists fear that a surge of proposed drag bans could criminalize trans people in public life. We’ve been here before, says @krheyam—and it’s never been about protecting the children. https://t.co/HT28nlwpS5
— Xtra (@XtraMagazine) January 29, 2023
Nebraska comes out with its first anti-trans bill and its a doozy.
— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) January 12, 2023
It is a drag ban that targets trans people. People under 21 years old can't see drag. It defines drag as trans people performing.
It would charge trans people with misdemeanors.
What on EARTH? pic.twitter.com/EOd7zlZhOt
February 2023:
Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk has called for "men to handle" trans people "the way they did in the 50s and 60s."
— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) February 18, 2023
These calls for violence must end.
He will be touring colleges this Spring. Show his video to your admins.
Subscribe to support my work.https://t.co/eXeDVeBQWQ
Relatedly, in case you want to know what else Charlie Kirk believes: In January 2024, HuffPost reports:
"Right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, leader of the MAGA youth groups Turning Point USA and Students for Trump and the host one of the most listened-to podcasts in the United States, encouraged his listeners this week to take up arms in preparation for an “invasion” of immigrants at the southern border.
“The break-ins, the looting, the murder, the rapes, the arson, it’s — by the way, this is just getting warmed up,” Kirk said Wednesday [January 24, 2024] on “The Charlie Kirk Show,” echoing white supremacist talking points depicting immigrants and asylum seekers as inherently criminal. “You got 15,000 fighting-age males that are getting deployed all across the country. Native-born Americans, you better buy weapons, everybody. Have a lot of guns at your disposal. I would never leave your home without a weapon. It’s the new country we live in. It is ‘Mad Max.’ [President Joe] Biden is creating ‘Mad Max.’ You’re on your own.”"
Indiana’s senate committee really decided to side with a doctor who said “peer reviewed studies mean nothing” today over representatives from the largest research institutions and medical organizations in passing a ban for trans youth through committee.
— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) February 22, 2023
Wow.
There are ZERO trans rapists in women’s prisons in the UK. There never have been. Yet tomorrow you’re going to read blanket press coverage of all trans people losing a basic human right - to stop trans rapists in women’s prisons π€·♀️ Cruel, dishonest, hysteria. Fuck the Tories.
— India Willoughby (@IndiaWilloughby) February 26, 2023
See also: "Texas Republicans See Attacking Trans Kids As Political Win: The far-right hopes to drag more moderate conservatives into a full-scale culture war." Roque Planas. Feb 2, 2023.
"Rising demand, and the complications it brings, suggests a need for more providers, not fewer. The medical community must address gaps in care, not allow politicians to widen them." https://t.co/bigPJVk4ny
— Gillian Branstetter (@GBBranstetter) April 1, 2023
This is why they are targeting trans kids: "Putting a child or adolescent on a pathway towards life as a transgenderperson puts that individual at risk of a wide range of long-term or even life-long harms..."
— Chase Strangio (@chasestrangio) September 16, 2022
They believe being a transgender adult is a harm. But it isn't.
Just so you’re not swayed by the headline, a teacher was not suspended for refusing to use the “they” pronoun for a pupil. He was suspended for gatecrashing an anniversary dinner to publicly harass the principal over being requested to use the “they”pronoun for a pupil. https://t.co/taBtD9Ms2a
— John Lees (@johnlees927) August 31, 2022
This is foul -- I have a surprising number of mutuals with this person, but those who follow her, please consider the horror of the phrase "undeclared trans-identified offspring." Get out of here with that -- protect trans kids, protect trans rights. pic.twitter.com/Pu8k3cVB8T
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) August 16, 2022
This woman is clearly driven by a deep-seated hatred and puritanical self-righteousness, but how she reverse engineers some narrative for her to stand behind, should one day be held up as some of THE most batshit, la la land, tripe among all the yellow-journalism of this decade. https://t.co/fnzC2ckbej
— Joss Priorππ✨ Psychodelicia✨ππ (@joss_prior) July 19, 2023
The more I delve into anti-trans hate the more I realize that what’s happening to transgender people is literally just a “road test” for a wider Christian Nationalist authoritarian agenda. I appreciate @AliVelshi creating space for this deeper conversation on @MSNBC. pic.twitter.com/A3yyZWgm68
— Imara Jones (@imarajones) March 14, 2023
This is exactly what they did when courts enforced the end of segregation and Jim Crow. Rather than integrate, they closed down community pools, packed up, and left for private suburban communities built on exclusion.
— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) April 11, 2023
The end goal is eliminating libraries and public schools. pic.twitter.com/KGl89AEliw
The true absurdity of the UK gov's drive to enforce Gender Critical Ideology shown by HESA's new guidance
— Katy Montgomerie π¦ (@KatyMontgomerie) April 11, 2023
Sex is now a binary field for British students only, but not for foreign students as they may come from a country that recognises sex isn't binary
https://t.co/4z7tql0Uog pic.twitter.com/cAYNdaKuJK
Republicans often cite restrictions in Europe to justify banning healthcare for trans kids. They claim, "We're not transphobic because Europe is doing it too!!" American media isn't thoroughly examining this claim. So, I decided to do it myself. /1https://t.co/WiMJxp0HoO
— Alex Koren (she/her)π³️⚧️π (@LiterallyAlexK) April 6, 2023
In Texas, 2023:
"After a yearslong barrage by activists and lawmakers, the state has won the battle against the use of transition-related care, like puberty blockers and hormone therapies, for transgender youth. While the war over this health care remains in question — and a legal fight to block the new law begins in Texas — clinics have closed and some doctors have stopped providing this care."
— “Unbearable”: Doctors treating trans kids are leaving Texas, exacerbating adolescent care crisis. William Melhado. Texas Tribune. July 17, 2023.
August 2023
August 2023
A study published in August 2023 finds that — according to the Associated Press — during a four-year period from 2016–2019, fewer than 3,700 gender-affirming surgeries were performed in the U.S. on patients ages 12 to 18 — emphasis, some were 18, not even minors, and "it's not clear how many" within the 12–18 group were 18. People 19+ received 10 times as many gender-affirming surgeries.
Virginia Gov. Youngkin
Glenn Youngkin, governor of Virginia since January 2022, by the end of that year had delayed his intended policies. (HuffPost, Dec 21, 2022)
And by August 2023: "Several school districts in Virginia’s Democratic-leaning regions are flat-out refusing to implement transphobic policies recently handed down by the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE). The policies force students to use bathrooms, pronouns, and names that align with their sex assigned at birth."
— Virginia schools are refusing to follow the governor’s transphobic policies... and there may not be much that the governor can legally do about it. Daniel Villarreal, LGBTQ Nation, August 24, 2023
A few months later:
"To be fair to Republican strategists, there was a moment, in the fall of 2021, when it looked as if the plan was working. Glenn Youngkin, the Republican nominee for governor in Virginia, ran on a campaign of “parents’ rights” against “critical race theory” and won a narrow victory against Terry McAuliffe, a former Democratic governor, sweeping Republicans into power statewide for the first time since 2009. Youngkin shot to national prominence, and Republicans made immediate plans to take the strategy to every competitive race in the country.
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Overall, election night 2022 was a serious disappointment for the Republican Party, which failed to win a Senate majority and barely won control of the House of Representatives. The hoped-for red wave was little more than a puddle. The culture war strategy had fallen flat on its face."
* * *
One Youngkin-endorsed candidate for State Senate, Juan Pablo Segura, told Fox News that he wants to revisit a failed bill that would have required schools to notify parents if there was any hint a child was interested in transgender identity.
Segura lost his race [on November 7, 2023]..."
— "The G.O.P’s Culture War Shtick Is Wearing Thin With Voters", Jamelle Bouie, New York Times, Nov. 10, 2023
September 2023
At least 22 U.S. states have banned gender-affirming care for minors.
A teenager does her makeup and gets ready to go back to school. This is normal. Protect trans kids.
11-year-old trans girl’s plea for “peace” leaves school board speechless “I came here not to fight, but to make peace. How? I’m going to tell a story.” Bil Browning, LGBTQ Nation, October 4, 2023. Here's the video on Twitter and on the story Erin Reed wrote on Substack.
March 2024
Drag story hour at Pa. library canceled after suspicious package and threats, authorities say A state police bomb squad later cleared the library, but police said “additional reported threats” were still being investigated. Associated Press, whyy.org, March 23, 2024
Can anyone, including a child themselves, know if the child is gay?
The LGB Alliance opposes gay kids. This is a homophobic position. They oppose their own past gay-child selves.
In a four-tweet thread on September 16, 2022, Katy Montgomerie said that LGB Alliance was "claiming that gay kids don't exist." She noted: "Coming out to yourself as gay as a teenager and dealing with the homophobia around etc is such a big deal for so many people. Children go through it alone often[.] A whole generation of kids grew up in Section 28 and were literally on their own, worrying what it meant that they had these feelings and if their friends and families would even love them anymore[.] The LGBT rights orgs that LGB Alliance campaigns against fought for these kids[.]" She adds: "I bet all of them were aware of their sexual orientation before they were 18." "So obsessed with harming trans people that they are willing to throw gay kids under the bus too[.]" And, crucially: "it's not even consistent with another one of their hateful claims: that gay kids are being forced to transition. What gay kids? You don't even believe they exist."
April 2024
"A large percentage of [U.S.] trans youth live in states where such [anti-trans] laws have been enacted, including 85 percent of trans youth in the South and 40 percent in the Midwest.
Conversely, nearly half of all trans youth live within the 14 states that have enacted shield laws that protect access to gender-affirming care and prohibit conversion therapy. This includes all trans youth in the Northeast and 97 percent of those in the West."
— Over 90% of trans youth live in states pushing anti-trans legislation: report, Ryan Adamczeski, The Advocate, April 23, 2024
Bomb threat interrupts Drag Story Hour event at Arlington gay bar [Virginia], Lou Chibbaro Jr., Washington Blade, April 8, 2024
Pennsylvania: A school board canceled an anti-bullying talk because the speaker is gay.
Bluesky link to NYT article, Bluesky quote from NYT article
Look at the result of the law
"Idaho State Police’s sexual assault nurse coordinator told Idaho Reports that the new law prevents law enforcement from administering rape kits to minors without parental permission."
A new Idaho law is keeping child sexual assault victims from receiving care, Andru Zodrow, KHQ, Aug 9, 2024
West Virginia:
"Businessperson Chris Miller is running in the GOP primary for governor of West Virginia next month, and his campaign has one clear message: he simply hates transgender children.
His recent ads have focused on promising to roll back the rights of transgender students, lying about gender-affirming care to make it sound scarier, and accusing his opponents of supporting gender-affirming surgery on minors, something that is almost never performed on minors."
— Republican governor candidate is making his entire campaign about hating trans kids: "His pronoun? Money-grubbing liberal," an ad says of one of his Republican opponents. Alex Bollinger, LGBTQ Nation, April 23, 2024
Republicans are running ads showing children taking their pants down in restrooms
2024 election. Not kidding.
How do you know if a murder victim was trans?
Anti-trans policies make it more likely that trans people will go missing.
Looking for a person in their old name and old gender presentation won't help you find that missing person as they're presenting right now. It's a prejudice against finding people who are living in a gender that doesn't "match" their sex assigned at birth.
In March 2024, Indiana's HB 1291 proposes that law enforcement be required to gather information on the "biological sex" of a missing person.
Anti-trans policies make it more likely that trans people will die.
The medical examiner looks at that person who has (or hasn't) had surgery, does (or doesn't) have updated ID, and may not see "a trans person."
How do you know if any human is trans?
"A recent drama residency from the Missoula Children's Theatre prompted Lakeland Joint School District [in North Idaho] to apologize last week after some audience members complained that a staff member was transgender."
Lakeland superintendent apologizes after transgender actor visits school, Carolyn Bostick, Coeur d'Alene/Post Falls Press, May 23, 2024.
Read the Bluesky thread
"We found that trans youth were three times more likely to kill themselves but then we controlled for the dumbest thing imaginable and the difference went away." mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/ebme...
— Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) May 18, 2024 at 9:34 AM
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Trans elders exist
The goal of anti-LGBTQ laws is not to protect trans elders, either: In September 2023, four teenagers allegedly broke the jaw of a 72-year-old man while using anti-LGBTQ slurs. They will come after their own, at any age. In November 2023, "a Baptist pastor and small town mayor in Alabama was hounded into suicide by a right wing news site who discovered he had a secret online persona as a trans woman."
U.S. states are handing over the records of transgender patients.
My grim satisfaction at seeing this taken seriously is marred by my outrage that this study has to exist at all. "We studied people who were deprived of oxygen, and by year three the number of corpse-identifying individuals increased sharply" yeah no shit sherlock
— Werepixie π³️⚧️ (@poljack.bsky.social) September 26, 2024 at 9:00 AM
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