It Finally Happened: They’re Killing Trans People Over Herb Grinders
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GOP Mobilization Contributes To Record Deaths Of Trans People
You’re not crazy. You’re not hallucinating. You’re not making this up.
Since early 2021, escalating right-wing attacks on the LGBTQ+ community have contributed to record deaths of trans people.
Being trans, intersex, non-binary, gender nonconforming, or in any way queer means you are likely to suffer — or as too many trans people have discovered, you are likely to literally get killed — from what Crowd Counting Consortium’s data reveals is “a steep and sustained increase in the rate of right-wing demonstrations pushing anti-LGBTQ+ claims.”
