The US is in early stages of an anti-trans genocide, experts say - LGBTQ Nation

"Lemkin Institute President Dr. Elisa von Joeden-Forgey said the U.S. is now in the "early-to-mid stages of a genocidal process against trans and nonbinary and intersex people." She added that Republicans are using trans people to generate fear - particularly surrounding children, family, and their ideal concept of masculinity - to prime their base for genocide, the institute reported in a recent article."

"Dr. Gregory Stanton, president of the group Genocide Watch, agreed, saying that Donald Trump's executive order denying any recognition of any gender outside of the male-female binary is a "totalitarian" idea that is driven by "Nazi ideology." Dr. Stanton also noted that such strict male-female binaries neither exist in nature nor in many other cultures."

""The Trump administration and its bases... have identified a set of 'enemies' or 'objectionable people'" and have stirred up public prejudice against them "in a way that is escalating toward violence," said Dr. Henry Theriault, who served as the International Association of Genocide Scholars from 2017 to 2021."

"Former genocide researcher Haley Brown said that the 20 U.S. states with anti-trans bathroom bills "effectively give non-state actors tacit approval to commit violence" against trans people by essentially deputizing people to police gender expression "down to the very physiological characteristics" of every person."

The U.S. is in early-to-mid stages of a genocidal process targeting transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people. Political rhetoric and policies frame trans people as threats to children, family, and traditional masculinity to mobilize and prime supporters for violent action. An executive order denying legal recognition of genders outside the male-female binary institutionalizes a totalitarian stance rooted in exclusionary ideology. Public prejudice is being stoked by identifying trans people as 'enemies' or 'objectionable people,' escalating toward violence. Anti-trans bathroom bills in twenty states effectively authorize non-state actors to police gender expression and tacitly approve violence. These combined legal, political, and social moves increase systemic vulnerability and the risk of targeted, coordinated harm against gender-diverse populations.

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