transgender day of visibility

We Must Stand with Transgender Women When They are Attacked by the Trump Regime

Donald Trump’s massive landslide victory is a crushing defeat for women, migrants, religious and racial minorities, and especially for the transgender community.

Armed with the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling and with the mandate he received from a conservative electorate, the second Trump administration promises to be a bleak period for transgender Americans.

Transgender women should brace themselves for attacks from the White House and a slate of anti-trans legislation from the GOP controlled House and Senate.

Trump mercilessly mocked transwomen in his hate filled MAGA rallies, and his presidential campaign spent millions on ads attacking the trans community. This anti-trans messaging has already done incalculable harm to this disenfranchised community, but the worst is yet to come.

Why all this hate directed at a marginalized community that makes up less than one percent of the population? Trump used anti-trans hysteria as a wedge issue to consolidate his support from the evangelical community.

I am not trans, gay or bisexual, but I am an American who believes that we should all be treated with love and respect. The greatness of a democracy is manifest when we treat our religious, racial, political, and sexual minorities the same as everyone else.

Today I am trans, and I call on all freedom-loving Americans to identify with the trans community, and to stand by them.

It’s time to stop crying over the devastating election results, and time to start planning how we can protect the rights of the LGBT community under the fascist Trump regime.

Happy Easter and Transgender Day of Visibility

President Joe Biden is facing withering criticism from Donald Trump and his evangelical enablers for proclaiming March 31 as “Transgender Day of Visibility.”

This is faux outrage is exceedingly disingenuous for evangelicals are well aware that “Transgender Day of Visibility” is an annual event that is always celebrated on March 31.

Biden is a devout Catholic who always makes a public display of observing Easter and Christmas, he would be loath to do anything that would diminish any Christian holiday.

I don’t consider religiosity a virtue, and a president shouldn’t observe, commemorate, publicly celebrate or even acknowledge any religious holiday. The separation between church and state is sacrosanct, and I find it deeply offensive whenever any politician tries to curry favor with the electorate by invoking the name of God.

America is a secular democracy, and on March 31, 2024 we are free to celebrate Easter, Transgender Day of Visibility, or the pagan springtime goddess Eostre. Or maybe you are like most Americans who simply consider today just another weekend to eat a chocolate egg, relax and have a good time before we return to work.