Republicans are Pushing Trans Genocide
And they’re not even trying to hide it.
“Transgender Killer Targets Christian School,” read the headline of the March 28, 2023 New York Post, referring to the Tennessee school shooting that happened on March 27, 2023. Right-wing wackos are starting to draw lines between this event and a small handful of other mass shootings in recent years perpetrated by trans or nonbinary folx. Clearly, the trans “movement” is radicalizing people into killers.
The New York Post, of course, is owned by Rupert Murdoch, the guy who owns the right-wing propaganda machine Fox News, so this is not at all surprising. Nor is the deflection away from fixing gun laws, which is probably the biggest problem related to mass shootings in America, and toward the queer community. Never mind that mass shooters tend to be cis males — that’s immaterial to this whole thing.
The right needs a villain, an “other,” to motivate their base in the culture wars, and trans folx are the villain these days. They describe trans folx in derisive terms, call them mentally ill, and create legislation to limit and ban their activities. My home state of Missouri is one of the leaders in this charge, pushing bill after bill to legislate trans folx out of existence, one way or the other.
