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“'Counterterrorism' Now Officially Means Targeting Trans People
The White House will prioritize the 'neutralization' of groups it considers 'anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.'
On Wednesday, the White House released a new 'United States Counterterrorism Strategy,' the first such directive since a 2021 Biden-era memo emphasizing the need to combat white supremacist violence, which has now been scrubbed from the White House website.
Wednesday’s document, masterminded by White House 'counterterrorism czar' Sebastian Gorka, does not mention far-right violence at all. It identifies 'Violent Left-Wing Extremists, including Anarchists and Anti-Fascists' as a security threat of equal severity to 'Legacy Islamist Terrorists' and 'Narcoterrorists and Transnational Gangs.' The administration will now apparently 'prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.'
In a bizarre but familiar turn, the document also blames transgender people for the shooting of Charlie Kirk. 'Americans have witnessed the politically motivated killings of Christians and conservatives committed by violent left-wing extremists, including the assassination of Charlie Kirk by a radical who espoused extreme transgender ideologies.'
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Counterterrorism itself is a politicized term that came into common use following the September 11 attacks and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. It formed part of the language of the policing apparatus that targeted Muslim and Arab Americans and legitimized surveillance of those communities as 'terrorist threats.' That same language is now being applied to transgender people.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has called Kirk’s death a 'domestic 9/11.' The Heritage Foundation, too, has done its best to connect being transgender with the idea of terrorism, campaigning last year for the FBI to designate trans advocacy as violent extremism.
'We will…identify their membership, map their ties to international organizations like Antifa, and use law enforcement tools to cripple them operationally,' the document says."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/trump-gorka-counter-terrorism-transgender-antifa-docuiment/