#anti-trans-rhetoric

#anti-trans-rhetoric

An 18-year-old trans woman has been identified by police as the suspected shooter responsible for nine deaths in the small Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge. The tragedy has sparked an alarming wave of anti-trans rhetoric, with influential right-wing figures using it to spread dangerous misinformation on the prevalence of trans-perpetrated violence. "This will just get uglier now for us and for our community as a whole, when our attention should be on the care of these victims and to support communities,"

I've spent the last 25 years since I transitioned being spoken by lawmakers, by media, by people who have never met me but feel entitled to decide what my life means. The pressure to explain, justify, or exist as a symbol in somebody else's mythology is constant. It's part of why my film, Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps, exists: to narrate a trans life from the inside, rather than explain it to outsiders.

"We have heard calls by members of congress to institutionalise all transgender people, comments referring to transgender people as mentally ill, and false suggestions by high-level political figures that transgender people are inherently violent and must be addressed as a national security threat," the signatories to the letter claimed. That language, along with a "rising number of legislative and administrative attacks" on the community, "is taking a real toll", they added.

213 Democrats, including the entire party leadership, told Johnson that his failure to enforce basic standards of conduct has allowed dehumanizing attacks to become routine on the House floor. "We write to you to strongly condemn the rise in anti-transgender rhetoric, including from members of Congress," the lawmakers wrote, urging Johnson to ensure members of Congress are following rules of decorum and not using their platforms to demonize and scapegoat transgender people.

"Not in our Name" is the title of a collective of cisgender women who have written an open letter calling out the media and politicians for disseminating anti-trans rhetoric. In collaboration with the Good Law Project, the letter has so far been signed by more than 61,500 cisgender women, including high-profile figures such as Beverley Knight, Kate Nash and Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer MP.

Anti-trans Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who regularly uses anti-trans slurs and calls herself a " proud transphobe," is getting called "totally befuddled" and accused of "having a sharp mental decline" by many on her side of the aisle.

Left-leaning Ohio journalist D.J. Byrnes posted an image of the swastika, which he said appeared on an office wall during a video call with Taylor's legislative correspondent, Angelo Elia. The swastika appeared at the center of a U.S. flag and was made with the flag's red stripes. "I am aware of an image that appears to depict a vile and deeply inappropriate symbol near an employee in my office," the Ohio lawmaker said in a statement he released on his website.

Here are some of the worst. '27 genders' "You're not going to come in here and teach that there's 27 genders," he said in July while announcing a test to be given to teachers who come to Oklahoma from liberal states to make sure they're not "woke." Most likely, no one believes there are 27 genders - or teaches that.

Trump was hosting an Oval Office press conference to answer questions about Charlie Kirk's death when Glenn brought up "trans shooters," why the "trans flag" was being seen "up and down 14th street" (one of Washington D.C.'s gayborhoods), and how "a lot of people were very threatened by this flag." Holding up an image of the LGBTQ+ Progress Pride flag, Glenn proudly bleated: "This is what would be the trans flag," and asked the president whether he would "[take it] down."

ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live! is nothing short of a political execution carried out under the banner of corporate cowardice and wrapped in a sudden "gotcha" culture that has sinisterly sprung from the murder of Charlie Kirk. This slap at Kimmel is how censorship takes root. It's when a late-night comic delivers a stinging critique. The "informant society" that is howls, then Donald Trump's censorship flexes its arm, and a network folds.