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Who else the The Republican Party is attacking
The recent wave of anti-Trans legislation follows a decades-long pattern of the GOP targeting those they think lack the numbers or votes to properly fight back.
There’s been a shift in conservative politics. The Republican party moved from demonizing and blaming the nations’ problems on gay people to blaming our problems on Muslins.
The Rise of Anti-Trans “Radical” Feminists Explained
Known as TERFs, Trans-exclusionary radical feminist groups are working with conservatives to push their anti-Trans agenda.
Joining conservatives in the fight over sex-based discrimination and stereotypes are several somewhat unexpected allies: so-called “radical feminist” groups with long records of opposing the rights of Transgender people.
Why are Transgender girls suddenly important for the GOP?Lawmakers in a growing number of Republican-led states are advancing and passing bills to bar Transgender athletes in girls’ sports, a culture clash that seems to have come out of nowhere.
Though the number of Transgender athletes is very small, the GOP sure does have its eyes on girls sports. Socially conservative views are being overrepresented over real discussions of LGBTQ issues.
Why is the GOP escalating attacks on Trans rights?
There is a reality of the electorate and the priorities of Republican lawmakers that may seem counterintuitive to many.
Republican-dominated states have seen a blitz of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation since 2020, particularly anti-Transgender bills. Even though many surveys show that Americans support LGBTQ+ equality.
Banning Trans Youth From Sports
LGBTQ advocates say politics are to plan for the recent explosion in sports bans of Trans student athletes.
The reason for the recent explosion in sports bans isn’t a surge of Trans student athletes dominating the playing field, political strategists and LGBTQ advocates say. It’s politics.
Anti-Trans laws seek to erase us from the public eye
Bills against the LGBTQ community have a measurable and devastating impact on Trans people’s quality of life from childhood.
There are too many Trans young people fighting to survive, from chronic homelessness to suicide.
Anti-Trans Legislation in the United States
A timeline of Transgender discrimination, starting with the 1950s and 60s, when the LGBTQ rights movement gained steam.
Gender justice advocates must be clear on our history as they strategize how to fight for equality under a presidential administration that is slated to be less supportive than the one they’ve gotten accustomed to over the last eight years. Check out the timeline now.
What does “Nonbinary” really mean?
When it specifically comes to gender, nonbinary is a word that helps give voice to a diverse range of gender identities.
When something can’t be placed in two boxes, we call it nonbinary, meaning “not consisting of, indicating, or involving two. Here’s why it’s important to have words for nonbinary gender identities.
What we can do about Transmisogyny This word describes so much of what we see in the cultural and systemic treatment of Trans women in our culture and ties in so clearly with feminism, and yet it’s not a word that many people know about or understand.
Transmisogyny is the confluence of Transphobia and misogyny. It is used to describe the negative attitudes, expressed through cultural hate, individual and state violence, and discrimination directed towards Trans women and Trans and Gender Non-Conforming people.