Thread by @ErinInTheMorn

I'm not mincing my words anymore.

The legislative assault on transgender people is a genocide against us.

It seeks to remove us from public life, remove all legal protections, remove our trans children from parents, remove their medically necessary care. It will kill people.

Stop turning your head and looking away.

Stop thinking you can just walk around in a land where 360 bills target us in every way imaginable, and in ways that we couldn't even imagine every single day.

Call this what it is and treat it as such.

This isn't "a difference of opinion" anymore.

This is meaningful action taken to limit our movement in society and to attack our quality of life to such a degree it becomes unsustainable to go on living for many of us.

Under the UN charter, genocide is defined as any of the following factors with intent to destroy a group:

A) Is definitely met indirectly and in many ways directly.
B) Is met directly
C) Is met directly
E) Is met directly (in Texas, proposed elsewhere)

Also, before people point to "national, religious, ethnic, or racial" as part of the UN charter on genocide

UN res 96/1 also includes "political" and "other" human groups.

Now what are you going to do to stop this genocide from occurring?

For those of you who don't understand:

6 states have passed laws removing care that every medical organization has stated is medically necessary, that is associated with a 73% reduction in suicide.

This directly causes "serious bodily and mental harm" under (b)

Texas has enforced child abuse efforts against parents of trans kids and investigated them, seeking to take them away.

I have watched hundreds of hours of testimony in anti-trans hearings and can report MANY other legislators have threatened the same.

This fulfills (e)

Arkansas is considering a bill right now that would make it a sex crime for a transgender person to walk into a bathroom if a child is present.

This fulfills (c), when trans people cannot even access basic accommodations safely.

https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1625921458454298625?s=20

Montana has passed a religious refusal of medical care that lets providers refuse medical care to transgender people. @ZoAndBehold spoke out forcefully against this bill. This fulfills (a) and (b)

https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1622747039434960896?s=20

South Dakota passed a bill that tells doctors how to, cruelly, medically detransition their patients.

It tells them to "systematically reduce their patients hormone levels."

This fulfills (a), (b), (c), and (e)

Texas has seen bills like SCR3, which signal that they want to "end gender affirming care entirely"

For everyone.

This fulfills (a) and (b)

A committee in Missouri just passed a gender affirming care ban for trans youth, and in that ban, they amended out an exception if the youth was "in iminent danger of death."

This fulfils (a), (b), and (e)

https://twitter.com/LauraAnnSTL/status/1626451445313675264

Tennessee's anti-drag bill, along with many anti-drag bills, would target not just drag but transgender people for simply going about their lives wearing the clothes that they wear if they "sing, dance, or monologue."

It also bans pride.

This violates (c) clearly

Montana just passed a bill through the house a "right to bully" trans people.

It states that using a trans kid's "legal name" and "biological pronouns" is not bullying.

This satisfies (b) easily.

Missouri may pass a bill that forcibly medically detransitions any trans person who is incarcerated.

This satisfies (b) and (c) easily, and has additional huge concerns when combined with anti-drag laws that also target trans people.

I have an endless well of examples, but this should serve for now.

Trans people are currently undergoing the beginnings of a genocide in our country, and we need people to act accordingly.

Make this stop.

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