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Anti-trans bills encourage far-right violence

The letters TRUM- backwards on a teal flag, in front of a USAmerican flag

That may be the intent. It sure looks like the outcome. The far-right wants the support of the center. The center has anti-transgender legislative campaigns. The far-right perpetrates anti-transgender violence.

Why is the far-right ever more intensely anti-trans?

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Because they’re bored by finally winning against abortion rights. Fascists oppose trans people because they find difference threatening. Being anti-trans is fundamental to their politics, and it predicts what comes next.

How the far-right comes for trans people

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Violent far-right U.S. groups are ‘hugely and deeply’ anti-transgender. Anti-transgender rhetoric isn’t “just asking questions!” or curiosity or nuance. It is hateful; it is organized; it foments organized violence.

Republicans say: Make it hard to divorce again

Statue of Liberty with a glowing yellow-blue sky

The Party of Trump wants to stop your divorce. Independence? For whom? The Republican Party wants to end no-fault divorce. They want everyone to be married with children. This threatens everyone’s right to exit a bad marriage.

Transphobia is a bellybutton mirror

selfie of Tucker Lieberman and Carlos Arturo Serrano

On the Tucker ’n’ Carlos Show, insights from Naomi Klein’s ‘Doppelganger’. We have to stop copying historical patterns of hate and cruelty. I try to reflect the world in ways that are good and true, not through a pipik-mirror.

What does Tucker Carlson say about LGBT people?

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If you know someone who doesn’t know, show them this. Fox News talk show host Tucker Carlson opposes LGBT rights. Where is the inventory of his offensive remarks that demonstrates this? I have created it.

‘Jurisdiction’ isn’t ‘child custody’

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Though if it were, I’d say we should go look for the trans kids in custody. Republicans are mad about this. Perhaps they should take up their complaint with the trans kids they believe Tim Walz has shipped to the moon.