Don't Publish Me! US Transgender Rights Context Story Don't Publish Me!

Published NOV 4 2024

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Above: American gay liberation activist Marsha P. Johnson (1945 - 1992, center left), along with unidentified others, on the corner of Christopher Street and 7th Avenue during the Pride March (later the LGBT Pride March), New York, June 27, 1982. Image credit: Barbara Alper/Archive Photos via Getty Images

The Spin

Despite the advances that have been made to improve the safety and equality of the trans community, discrimination persists, and has even been recently reinvigorated by diatribes emerging from the heart of modern US political discourse. Numerous legal and legislative advancements have been made at the state and federal level affirming constitutional protections, yet draconian and outright bigoted pushback continues to deny American minors — and adults alike — the care and tolerance they deserve in today's progressive society. More must be done to eliminate such anachronistic attitudes from the realms of acceptability, and to give all members of the LGBTQ+ community the equality they are entitled to.

Atlantic

No reasonable individual would argue that those who suffer with any kind of gender dysphoria deserve to be treated with anything but compassion and respect, but this truism has been contorted and appropriated to justify damaging and unpopular approaches to medicine, education and social policy in recent years. One only has to look at the UK's NHS Tavistock Clinic to see the risks of uncritical and unsubstantiated medical intervention on children experiencing dysphoria. Meanwhile, rational objections to the access of biological males to women-only refuge spaces or concerns about the suppression in debate about those who regret changing sex continue to be demonized. Public figures must find the courage to challenge this narrative if they wish to protect future generations.

Spectator (UK)The Federalist

Metaculus Prediction

There's a 23% chance that an openly LGBTQ person will be elected President of the United States by 2041, according to the Metaculus prediction community.