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"The Relentless Attack on Trans People Is an Attack on All of Us" - Jamelle Bouie at the NYT [1]

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Date: 2023-02-10  

"Put plainly, the attack on the dignity of transgender Americans is an attack on the dignity of all Americans. And like the battles for abortion rights and bodily autonomy, the stakes of the fight for the rights and dignity of transgender people are high for all of us. There is no world in which their freedom is suppressed and yours is sustained."

NYT oped by Jamelle Bouie

The fight for bodily autonomy is equally shared by trans activists and reproductive rights activists. It's why so many red states are pushing for draconian measures in each.

Ron DeSantis wanted girls to provide details of their periods to both check for trans athletes and track possible pregnancies and abortions.

We need to fight for all or nothing. Suicide rates among trans teens are way up among efforts to throw them and their parents in jail. They are quite literally fleeing from red states, desperately seeking refuge to just be who they are.

Some excerpts from Jamelle, who seems to be the only NYT writer who seems to actually care about trans people as opposed to the rest of them who use them as target practice.

" The attacks on transgender people and L.G.B.T.Q. rights are of a piece with the attack on abortion and reproductive rights. It is a singular assault on the bodily autonomy of all Americans, meant to uphold and reinforce traditional hierarchies of sex and gender.

Politicians and those of us in the media tend to frame these conflicts as part of a “culture war,” which downplays their significance to our lives — not just as people living in the world, but as presumably equal citizens in a democracy."

"The denial of dignity to one segment of the political community, then, threatens the dignity of all. This was true for Douglass and his time — it inspired his support for women’s suffrage and his opposition to the Chinese Exclusion Act — and it is true for us and ours as well. To deny equal respect and dignity to any part of the citizenry is to place the entire country on the road to tiered citizenship and limited rights, to liberty for some and hierarchy for the rest"

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