Transgender Americans Are Living in a Third World Country

While many Americans have become deeply involved in the increasingly hostile tribal politics that have been borne from Trumpism, transgender Americans have been quietly pushed even further to the fringes of society.

Between religious freedom being prioritized over human rights and the weaponizing of legislation to rob Transgender people of their access to basic healthcare, access to public spaces including homeless shelters, publicly banned from the military and dubbed a “burden and disruption” by the US President Donald Trump as well as the spike in homicides disproportionately affecting the community of Black Trans women specifically, Trans people in the United States experience conditions similarly to those in Mexico and Brazil. For a benchmark, America ranks third in Trans homicides just behind the two aforementioned undeveloped countries.

In America, even a suspicion of being Transgender can be dangerous. In the aftermath of Alabama and North Carolina introducing laws banning Transgender women from bathrooms, implying we are a threat to women and little girls which has resulted in a wave of physical and verbal abuse on transgender women using bathrooms, cisgender women have also been assaulted for appearing too masculine while using women’s bathrooms.