For the love of god, *they are actively criminalizing our existence* to the point of threatening cis people who do the bare minimum of acknowledging us with [**sex offender charges**](https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/08/us/missouri-lawmakers-felony-transgender-students-reaj)! 

The Christian Nationalist movement has made demonization of trans people and promises of our eradication their path into power, and if they win cis queer people are next on the goddamn block!

They're classifying our existence as [**pornographic degeneracy**](https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/08/conservative-think-tank-project-2025/) that they are determined to eliminate. They are declaring us to be deranged sexual predators targeting children, spreading the "social contagion" of trans-ness through pedophilic grooming. They are rapidly building the social and legal framework for making transition effectively impossible, and classify the public existence of sex and gender variance outside cis/straight norms to be pedophilic grooming by exposing children to degenerate sexual activity. Even if all we're doing is standing in line at the goddam grocery store.

If someone they deem a "man in a dress" is considered an "adult performer" when all they're doing is reading Mary Poppins to library kids while dressed as the titular character, what do you think this means for trans and gender nonconforming librarians?

We aren't even human to them. We're basically the mushroom zombies from *The Last Of Us*. Twisted, mutilated monsters who *used* to be human until we were infected by the evil trans contagion. Not real people, not a [**"real ontological category"**](https://www.mediamatters.org/daily-wire/daily-wire-host-says-there-cant-be-genocide-trans-people-transgender-people-not-real), so eliminating us isn't "genocide" it's just eradicating a disease/removing dangerous degenerates from society.

As such, they can claim to be justified in "investigating" all trans people, including [**demanding**](https://newrepublic.com/post/180680/missouri-attorney-general-bailey-planned-parenthood-transgender) our [**medical records**](https://apnews.com/article/transgender-youth-records-vanderbilt-tennessee-4a4e7d846cfb05ed6feefc7deef24ef1) and attempting to [**compile lists of our names and addresses**](https://www.texastribune.org/2022/12/14/ken-paxton-transgender-texas-data/).

This is not a fucking game! They are working towards making the public existence of trans people a goddamn sex crime. They are [**criminalizing our health care for youth**](https://newrepublic.com/article/178576/republicans-reveal-end-game-fight-trans-kids) ***and*** [***for adults***](https://truthout.org/articles/trans-adults-care-is-already-being-terminated-in-florida-following-court-ruling/) and [**banning us from updating ID and declaring it "fraud" to use ID that has already been updated**](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/01/florida-will-throw-trans-people-in-jail-if-they-try-to-update-the-gender-on-their-drivers-licenses/), [**revoking updates for those who already changed it**](https://apnews.com/article/transgender-rights-birth-certificates-kansas-df1e4120921749561ded2535263be223), and even trying to make us [**carry ID that specifically marks us as trans**](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/02/activists-liken-gop-to-nazis-for-bill-that-outs-trans-folks-changes-the-meaning-of-equal-rights/), making it fucking impossible for us to exist *without* being immediately publicly identifiable as trans, all while passing "drag" bans that criminalize gender nonconformity as being inherently obscene and sexual. They are making it functionally and even legally impossible to transition, and criminalizing the existence of anyone who has already managed to transition.

The fascist US White Christian Nationalist movement made promises of our eradication their path into power, and god help us it is working. In about half the country they are increasingly in positions to start following through on those promises. And they started with trans people but are quickly expanding to cis queer people too.

They are trying to [**ban all transition-related medical care**](https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/ohio-michigan-republicans-in-released) for both youth and adults, [**threatening doctors with jail time**](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/north-dakota-governor-signs-law-criminalizing-trans-health-care-for-minors), and demanding [**hospitals turn over patient data**](https://apnews.com/article/transgender-youth-records-vanderbilt-tennessee-4a4e7d846cfb05ed6feefc7deef24ef1) including everything from names and addresses to medical photos.

And trying to [**seize trans children**](https://newrepublic.com/post/172444/florida-passes-bill-allowing-trans-kids-taken-families) from [**supportive cis parents**](https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/texas-attempt-to-tear-parents-and-trans-youth-apart-one-year-later) and criminally charge those parents, on the grounds that allowing their child's transition is on par with raping them.

And trying to [**seize all children from families with a trans parent or sibling**](https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-anti-trans-bill-court-custody-kids-gender-affirming-care-2023-3) on the grounds that exposure to a trans person is child abuse.

And [**banning us from basic public facilities**](https://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/nondiscrimination/bathroom_bans), on the grounds that our presence in those facilities puts cis people at risk of sexual assault.

And laws allowing [**pharmacists, desk workers and nurses, among others, to refuse to dispense medication or complete paperwork for transgender patients**](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/19/missouri-anti-trans-legislation-this-year) seeking gender-affirming care.

And [**"drag bans" that classify gender variance as inherently sexual**](https://time.com/6260421/tennessee-limiting-drag-shows-status-of-anti-drag-bills-u-s/) and obscene and inappropriate for children to see, and "exposing" children to our presence as child sexual abuse.

And Florida's new law permitting the [**death penalty for child sexual abuse**](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/florida-prosecutors-seek-first-death-sentence-under-new-child-sex-abuse-law).

And the new law [**lowering the requirement for the death penalty**](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/us/desantis-death-penalty-florida.html) by allowing juries to recommend it with an 8-to-4 vote rather than unanimous.

They are intentionally stirring up increasingly violent hatred against us. They have convinced a small but terrifying segment of the population that we aren't even human - that we're an "ideology", a "contagion", a cross between evil monsters whose existence endangers civilized society and a contagious disease that must be eradicated. Twisted things that used to be human, until the evil trans social contagion turned us into baby mutilating pedophile monsters.

And in his concurring opinion after striking down Roe, Thomas wrote that the [**SCOTUS rulings prohibiting states from banning contraceptives, gay marriage, and "sodomy" may also be "up for review"**](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/06/supreme-court-roe-v-wade-clarence-thomas-contraception-same-sex-marriage-sodomy) too. [**12 states still have "sodomy" laws on the books**](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/21/us/politics/state-anti-sodomy-laws.html), and if SCOTUS rules to overturn the 2003 Lawrence v. Texas decision those laws will be enforceable again. And a whole lot of other states seem eager to re-instate laws like this too.

If "sodomy" laws are allowed to return, cis queer people's existence will be officially criminalized too. When queer relationships are by definition a sex crime, the public existence of cis queer people will be criminalized as pedophilic grooming just like trans people's public existence currently is.

It doesn't take a psychic to see where they're going here.