An open letter to the U.S. Congress

Introduce Legislation Protecting Trans Rights

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I need you to introduce legislation that protects trans lives and publicly commit to opposing any current or future legislation that restricts trans rights. You also need to publicly reject the false comparison between American anti-trans legislation and European healthcare policy. The appropriate comparisons are Russia, Hungary, Georgia, and Turkey—authoritarian regimes that banned gender-affirming care as part of democratic backsliding. Over a thousand bills have been introduced targeting trans people, who constitute half a percent of adults. This isn't healthcare policy. It's authoritarian consolidation using what scholars identify as "anti-gender ideology"—a global fascist movement that makes trans people into scapegoats for economic and cultural anxieties. In every country that has followed this pattern, attacks on trans rights functioned as both a leading indicator and active mechanism of democracy's collapse. Mainstream outlets like the New York Times and Washington Post have laundered far-right talking points by omitting the political context of the UK's Cass Review, the infiltration of gender-critical activists into British institutions, and the funding networks connecting anti-LGBTQ organizations. This media framing provides the permission structure that makes legislative attacks possible: https://www.thedissident.news/the-laundering-how-western-media-built-the-permission-structure-for-anti-gender-authoritarianism/ The federal government is now threatening to defund hospitals, investigating teachers, and banning trans people from military service. Call this what it is: fascist targeting of a vulnerable minority. Speak out and act before the ratchet turns to the next targeted group.

▶ Created on April 12 by Trans Rights Are Human Rights

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