It's basically a Holocaust of transgenders in flyover country, to hear them tell it – mtf's forcibly dressed by cisgender bigots in hideous prisoner jumpsuits that totally don't do anything for their non-existent female figures while they work for a bowl of rice a day.
It's, if you will, a Holiday in Cambodia.
Via HRC Staff:
"Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) — the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization — officially declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people in the United States for the first time in its more than 40-year history, following an unprecedented and dangerous spike in anti-LGBTQ+ legislative assaults sweeping state houses this year. A new report released by HRC today — LGBTQ+ Americans Under Attack — details more than 75 anti-LGBTQ+ bills that have been signed into law this year alone, more than doubling last year’s number, which was previously the worst year on record."
I remember the gays from the 90s back when I was a kid: they were generally depicted as optimistic, well-adjusted social renegades with good jobs, if perhaps slightly neurotic – like Will of Will & Grace fame.
That wasn't so long ago, but now it's all melodramatic violins played for themselves about "trans genocide or whatever.
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I don't know how any organization can grab share of mind without going all apocalypse now. There's so much media and it won't pay attention unless it's fed with outrage and outrageous. Left and right.
During the author’s childhood, the Gay population was treated significantly better than the entire 1st World population is today. During the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 90s, Gay men were not locked up the way the entire developed world was during Covid 19, a much less lethal disease. There were also no mandatory vaccines or respirators during AIDS, although Fauci did push for HIV patients to accept ATZ chemotherapy which killed more young, otherwise healthy men than the actual disease.