If you are going to read one and ONLY one article about the state of the US, why trans people in particular are under threat, with historical and contemporary analysis, please PLEASE read and share this article about a historian who is trans and has neurodivergent children, and why she is painfully packing up and exiting the US: https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/04/29/why-i-am-leaving-the-usa/
Why I Am Leaving the USA - Dame Magazine

My family is fleeing the country. We are not doing this in a panic; this is an orderly retreat from an unwinnable situation. We are slowly but surely packing up and emptying out our house. Instead of planning summer vacation and planting flowers, we're tackling a mountain of overdue home repairs, painting, carpeting, and deep

Dame Magazine -

If you are in a threatened category and ESPECIALLY if you are trans and you are thinking about leaving, it's at least important that you start planning your exit. I highly recommend the community collection of resources on https://transworldexpress.org/

Let me say it plainly: we are facing a trans genocide on the present path. Start helping yourself, your loved ones, get a passport, look at options out. Don't wait.

Trans World Express

I am not telling you to leave, I am telling you that you absolutely cannot look away from the situation, for your safety, for the safety of the people you love.

Things are escalating fast. Things will get much worse very quickly. In all likeliness, there won't be paths out, soon.

If you are wondering though, "is genocide really possible, or likely"

The answer is yes, it's possible, it's likely, they're actively working on it. In the next couple of posts, I will explain why, and then how, we are seeing a trans genocide being planned.

The first is why. It's very simple: fascism requires a culture war to prevent a class war. Since the poor are directly hurt by oligarchic takeover, they have to attack a group of underprivileged people

It's essential to have a group of people which are such a small minority that most people don't know them well, who are vulnerable, and to make them look scary and like the enemy.

It has been Jewish people before (and will again, Nazis can't wait after trans people are being exterminated to go after Jews again), but it is trans people being prioritized today.

So how will it be done?

The trail of crumbs is out there for all to see, they've left everything on the table:

- DONE: Provoke fear that trans people are sexual predators, trying to take things away from cis women, preying on children (these fears are now well established)
- DONE: Establish medical disinformation disguised as real reports saying that trans people aren't real, their care should be removed (especially for children but also adults)

So now what's next?

The next steps aren't a *direct* roundup, it's an *indirect* roundup:

- Federal ban on trans care for children, with severe prosecution for anyone who doesn't comply
- Federal ban on trans health care for *adults*, building on the previous case
- Begin defining having changed gender identity as "identity fraud" and a felony, including *government and workplace interactions*

THIS LAST ONE IS ALREADY A BILL IN TEXAS (HB 3817) https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=89R&Bill=HB3817

With these in place:

- Trans people will be forcibly detransitioned, accesing medical care even for adults could be considered drug crimes
- Trans people using their post-transition identity information in work or legal contexts can be charged as felons for identity fraud
- Trans people entering restrooms not corresponding to their assigned-at-birth-gender can be arrested as *sexual predators*
- Trans people will be assigned to the *wrong prisons*

@cwebber
to add something even more grim: Project 2025 mentioned the death penalty for sexual predators _and_ framed sex ed (esp. regarding trans and inter people) as sexual child abuse
@ki @cwebber Except of course for all the GOP including GOP politicians caught with child porn.
@ariaflame @ki @cwebber To them it's scarcely an exception. Men doing whatever they want with their property is and always has been their idea of right-minded sexuality. The interaction of an agent with an object is their norm, nevermind that some of those objects believe themselves to be people - these men know better, and they've always acted consistently with this belief to the greatest extent they have been allowed to without consequences.