Thread by @BrynnTannehill

The article omits the fact that Florida has made it impossible for transgender adults to continue receiving HRT. Other polling shows that 8% of transgender people have already fled, and most of the rest considering leaving. 1/n
washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/06…

Something that was once culturally Jewish has now become a staple of families with trans people: dinnertime conversations that center around the question: "When is it time to leave?" A Rabbi with a trans child weighs in: 2/n losangelesblade.com/2023/05/01/mis…

“I don’t say this lightly: This is what it must have been like to be a Jew in 1930 in Europe. It doesn’t feel real, and you can’t believe that it’s actually going to get worse – that they’re going to do the things that they say they’re going to do – and then it gets worse.” 3/n

This was left under the windshield wipers of cars at a Target store in Redding CA. Others were distributed in Atlanta. 3/n metroweekly.com/2023/04/transp…

Musk is engaged in brutally anti-semitic tropes, while calling for the jailing of doctors and parents of trans youth. He calls trans people a "cult" and part of the "woke mind-virus". Trans people are a disease to be eradicated from public life. 4/n newrepublic.com/post/173201/el…

The blitz of laws passed targeting transgender people is basically the legal equivalent of a human wave attack: there literally isn't enough resources for civil rights organizations to challenge them all. 5/n

The ways trans people are being squeezed out of public life are myriad:

* Banned from healthcare
* Effectively banned from schools
* Books about trans people banned
* Banned from sports
* Laws ensuring discrimination against trans people is a legally protected right

6/n

* Requirements that force trans people to carry ID that effectively identify them as trans
* Requirements that children be called by names that ID them as trans in school (if they're able to function there at all)
* Banned from bathrooms 7/n

* Universities and DMVs are required to provide lists of trans people to the government for unknown purposes
* Banned from the military (Under Trump)
* Bans on trans people in government jobs (TX Dept of Ag)
* Banned from performing in public
* Gender studies bans

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And if you look at this and you don't see why this is so spectacularly bad, you can find a direct parallel to every single bullet point in this link.

Every single f***ing one of them. 9/n encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art…

Paramilitary groups aligned with the fascist government targeting trans people. Rhetoric that society cannot survive if something isn't done about trans people, and treating the question as something that needs a "solution" to people who have too long been tolerated 10/n

There's literal swastika flag waving Nazis showing up at anti-trans rallies, and Republicans legislators calling trans people imps, demons and mutants who are giving the Nazis the laws against trans people they're asking for. 11/n

https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1667591621649526785

Charitable organizations and gofundme's are springing up everywhere to help trans people flee states targeting them. This is the goal of these laws today.

It was also the goal of similar laws 90 years ago. 12/n texaspriderealty.com/fleetexas/

Get them to leave. Even let them organize and raise money to do so. The initial goals of laws and dehumanizing rhetoric was to induce them leave voluntarily. By 1939, 2/3rds had, and almost all the rest were frantic to get out. 13/n encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art…

So when Michael Knowles talks about "eradicating transgenderism" but denies wanting to kill or "eradicate" transgender people: this is what he is talking about: achieving what Germany did between 1933 and 1939. They're already well on their way. 14/n

People still don't believe it can happen here. There's still a contingent of people who tell me not to make these comparisons, and they're the same people that from Adorno, Arendt, and Mayer out of postwar conversations for the same reasons. 15/n

They're the same people who nod their head when Serwer stated that the cruelty is the point, but don't think the cruelty goes THAT far

People still believe our institutions will save us even as they've clearly being undermined by rich guys with signed copies of Mein Kampf 16/n

We're going down a dark path right now, and it is so clear to anyone who has a background in this where is going.

I'm not popular with the LGBT movement writ large, but I've been right almost every step of the way since 2013 as I recognized what the GOP was becoming. 17/n

I've spent the back half of my life studying and immersed understanding in dangerous, fanatical, murderous anti-democratic movements, from Nazis, to al Qaeda in Iraq, to whatever the **** the GOP is today.

18/n

And every analytic fiber of my being says, these people are as dangerous as any of their predecessors, and appear to be taking their cues nearly word for word from their ideological German forbears.

Happy pride.

And be ready to get out. 19/n

There might not be ANY sanctuary for trans people in the US in 2025, and if a Poilievre government in Canada decides they're not prepared to deal with a wave of transgender refugees and asylum seekers, history may do more than just rhyme. 20/n