Genocide - One Mother's Opinion

 

The GOP is committing genocide against trans people. My sweet, caring son doesn’t deserve this.

With everything in me, I’m begging you, stand up and speak out for our trans citizens before this goes any further.

Saturday, March 29, 2025

My Note:  Below is a strong very strong statement that has international implications.  Sarah P., a mother, is documenting her 18 year old's plight. It is poignant, raw and to the point. I am going to quote two point from her article and hope you read all she has written also.   

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First I am going to  define genocide.  

Here is the definition from the website of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum [They would know]: 

The legal term “genocide” refers to certain acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. Genocide is an international crime, according to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948). The acts that constitute genocide fall into five categories: 

•  Killing members of the group 
•  Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group 
•  Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction, in whole or in part
•  Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group 
•  Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

Right now, transgender people in the US are experiencing items two and three on this list.

Second: Here are just a few of the ways that the Trump administration has, either by executive order or memorandum, very quickly eroded the already threatened rights of transgender Americans since the inauguration on January 20: 

•  The federal government will now only recognize two sexes, male and female, effectively rendering nonbinary identities invalid. 

•  No federal funds shall be used for gender affirming care for trans people under the age of 19. (Two notes about this one – cisgender children can still, and always have been able to, access gender affirming care with the approval of their parents; and currently this executive order has been blocked by the courts through a second temporary restraining order.)  

•  They are in the process of removing all trans people from active military service. 

•  They have mandated that all federal agencies stop recognizing gender identity on forms and surveys. Where it was previously recorded, the new categories will just be blank. 

•  They have deleted the “T” from government websites that refer to LGBTQ+ people and have removed all references to trans and intersex people from federal web pages. 

•  They have banned transgender people from obtaining visas to enter the country, and there have been ongoing reports of trans US citizens being rejected and their documents confiscated when trying to re-enter the country. 

•  They have removed protection from surveillance by the Department of Homeland Security for all homosexual and transgender people. 

I’m begging you, stand up and speak out for our trans citizens before this goes any further.