kottke.orgDonald Trump’s Executive Orders Aim to Create Jim Crow for Trans People. “The orders also, variously, deny people the ability to exercise control over their own bodies, medical care, and future, while also infringing on rights of free expression.” https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/donald-trump-anti-trans-executive-orders-jim-crow.html
WeatherwaxWe can advocate for trans healthcare access and civil rights without making false equivalences to Jim Crow. These comparisons diminish the unique horror of systemic racial terror that Black Americans endured for generations.
Each civil rights struggle deserves to be understood in its own context. Making these overwrought historical comparisons weakens rather than strengthens arguments for trans rights and healthcare access.