A-Infos (en) France, UCL AL #370 - Spotlight - United States: Trans People Facing the Risk of Genocide (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

An American NGO specializing in genocide prevention is raising the alarm 
about the mechanisms in place under the Trump administration that could 
ultimately lead to the eradication of trans people in the United States. 
---- On February 26, a law came into effect in Kansas invalidating any 
driver's license or birth certificate that lists a gender different from 
the one assigned at birth. Approximately 1,700 trans people reportedly 
received letters asking them to immediately surrender their current 
licenses, forcing them to make the difficult choice between accepting 
documents that contradict their gender identity or simply stopping 
driving altogether.

This is far from the first anti-trans measure in this state, which is 
working to make life impossible for trans people under its jurisdiction, 
prompting many of them to flee into exile. Thus, at the end of January, 
the same state passed a law providing a bounty to any good American 
citizen who files a lawsuit against someone suspected of using a 
restroom that does not correspond to their sex assigned at birth. This 
law not only encourages but also financially rewards the average 
American who participates in the persecution of transgender people or 
those perceived as such.

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, an American NGO dedicated 
to raising awareness and providing tools to prevent genocide worldwide, 
issued its third red alert in March concerning a potential genocidal 
risk to transgender people in the United States. This alert asserts that 
the Trump administration has entered a new phase in the eradication of 
transgender people not only from public life but from any form of 
existence, portraying them as "a cosmic threat to the spiritual health 
of the nation and the greatest direct global threat to U.S. national 
security."

The NGO supports its analysis with several points. She describes how the 
United States denies trans identities by striving to prevent their 
public expression while attacking the institutions that contribute to 
reproducing these identities, for example, by prohibiting any mention of 
LGBTQ+ people in school curricula. This denial is used as a pretext to 
materially obstruct access to transition pathways.

She also denounces the rhetoric of the Trump camp, which seeks to 
criminalize all trans people and their supporters by exploiting the 
actions of individual trans people or by fabricating their involvement 
in criminal cases, as seen in the assassination of the reactionary 
influencer Charlie Kirk.

Finally, the various measures facilitating the identification of trans 
people on their official documents, such as the case of driver's 
licenses in Kansas, raise serious concerns. History shows us how this 
forced identification is a tactic frequently used in the development of 
genocidal projects to target a specific subset of the population, and 
which generally precedes a phase of confinement. To disrupt this 
well-oiled machine, and to prevent the worst from happening, it is more 
important than ever to support our comrades in the United States.

Johanna (UCL Lyon)

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Etats-Unis-Les-personnes-trans-face-au-risque-genocidaire
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