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An #AntiTrans #BathroomBill With a Cruel New Twist

A new Kansas law lets those “aggrieved” by the presence of a trans person in a bathroom to file a civil suit for monetary damages.

Natasha Lennard
February 3 2026, 8:59 a.m.

"With masked paramilitary forces grabbing nonwhite people from the streets and shooting civilians with impunity, it can be difficult to keep focus on all the other ways Republicans are entrenching a #fascist status quo nationwide. For #trans people, however, the legislative and policy assaults, which have been escalating red states for nearly a decade, are only getting worse — and, as ever, drawing all too little concern from Democratic leaders.

"Just last week, the Kansas legislature passed some of the most far-reaching measures to push trans and #GenderNonconforming people out of public life to date. Bathroom bans that bar trans people from restrooms aligned with their gender identity have become grimly common; over 20 states have such a law on the books. But Kansas’s new anti-trans bathroom bill adds a dangerous twist: a #BountyHunter provision.

"The law would permit private citizens to sue and seek monetary reward based on claiming to encounter a trans person in the bathroom. That’s on top of some of the harshest punishments of any existing bathroom bans, such as criminal charges, steep fines and even jail time.

"As journalist and trans rights advocate Erin Reed first reported, the bill’s vague language means that its reach could extend beyond public buildings — the remit of most bathroom bans around the country.

" 'As written, it would not only be the first bathroom bounty law to target transgender people directly, but also the first to extend a bathroom ban into private spaces,' noted Reed, “effectively creating the nation’s first private bathroom ban if enacted by empowering bounty hunters to search for trans people in bathrooms.'

[...]

"Kansas Republicans rushed through the bathroom ban, skirting public comment by essentially sneaking the bill into another piece of legislation aimed at denying trans people correct government IDs. The ID legislation is in and of itself extreme: it would invalidate driver’s licenses, government IDs, and even birth certificates that don’t list a person’s sex as assigned at birth.

"The bill would require trans people to surrender their correctly identifying driver’s license or risk a misdemeanor offense for driving with a invalid license. Trans Kansans would thus have to choose between carrying identification with their assigned sex at birth — inviting potentially further harassment and violence in public — or forgoing aspects of public life entirely. It’s a policy in line with the Trump administration’s move to stop issuing accurate passports to trans Americans."

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/VKuYu

#USPol #GBLTQ #GBLTQRights #TransErasure #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Erin In The Morning: BBC Now Calling Trans Women 'Biological Males Who Identify As Women' - https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/bbc-now-calling-trans-women-biological

#BBC #TransErasure #HateSpeech #Oppression #journalism #FirstTheyCameFor

I was reminded again of a case of #transErasure while #watchingBabylon5.

Ambassador Delenn goes thru a metamorphosis in a chrysalis during the show where she transforms from a minbari to minbari-human mix... BUT... I believe JMS confirmed that this was also supposed to be a gender transition, as in the character of Delenn was originally male Minbari, who transitions to female (human/minbari?)... You can see this in the pilot movie: strong chin, kinda butch. In the series they femmed her up.

Side by side comparison of Delenn's character design in the pilot movie "The Gathering" vs her character in the show (before the metamorphosis). In the movie design she appears to have wider, chiseled chin, while in the series design she has a softer, feminine look and now wears lipstick and eyeliner.

@EarlyTwix @tagesschau und genau das muss bekämpft werden: #QueerGenocide / #QueerDemocide beginnt exakt dort wo #QueerErasure / #TransErasure normalisiert wird!

https://web.archive.org/web/20220309160330/https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/1221503438845952000

The German History Museum wants to preserve #queer and #LGBTQIA* history and is actively looking for pieces to archive for #QueerHistory.

They are explicitly asking for memorabilia, stories, and (historical) artifacts.

So I guess folks should ping Jessica Price and the entire queer #community to save what they can from the #Trump regime...

Espechally given #BookBans and #TransErasure this is important!

Contact details to the Museum and the curator for said collection are on their website:
https://www.hdg.de/haus-der-geschichte/sammlung#c27369

#TransPeople Have Disappeared From #ICE Records, Against Congressional Orders

The #Trump administration has made efforts to "erase" #transgender people, who face violence and medical neglect behind bars.

by Matt Sledge, July 11 2025

"President Donald Trump’s administration has vanished another inconvenient fact: the number of transgender people in #immigration #detention.

"Immigration and Customs Enforcement quietly stopped reporting how many transgender people it keeps locked up in February, as the total population of immigrants in detention soared and the agency rescinded protections for trans people.

"The move follows Trump’s executive order in January to essentially stop recognizing that trans people exist. According to the nonprofit Vera Institute of Justice, it appears to run afoul of a congressional mandate to report how many transgender and other vulnerable people are being kept in immigration detention.

"The move has complicated advocates’ efforts to keep trans immigrants safe behind bars, where they face a heightened risk of violence and medical neglect.

" 'It’s part and parcel of a larger effort to really erase trans people,' said Bridget Crawford, the director of law and policy for the nonprofit advocacy group #ImmigrationEquality. 'They are not even willing to try to track the trans population, despite the congressional mandate.'

"Her group released a survey last year finding 'systemic' mistreatment of #LGBTQ+ and #HIVPositive people in immigration detention. About one third of the respondents reported sexual and physical #abuse or #harassment, and nearly all reported verbal abuse, including threats of violence. Most said they received inadequate medical care or were denied care outright.

"Congress directed the Department of Homeland Security, the parent agency of ICE, to report the number of transgender people in detention starting in 2021, according to the Vera Institute."

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/azYR7

#DHS #HumanRights #ICEKidnapping #TransLivesMatter #USPol #TransErasure #ICERaids #ICESucks #TrumpSucks #Fascism #Authoritarianism #BigBrother #NineteenEightyFour #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Stonewall didn’t start with a rainbow. It began with a brick thrown in defiance, by those who refused to be erased. At the origin of queer liberation stood trans women, drag queens, sex workers, and other gender-nonconforming people who risked everything to stand against state violence.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/the-hypocrisy-behind-trans-erasure-in-the-lgbtq-movement-d4f124d33e89

#LGBTQ #Transgender #TransErasure #Hypocrisy

@persagen I guess the question is not if #trans people are leaving the #UK but merely where to and how...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl15b2_Zk-w

#TransRightsAreHumanRights #TERFisland #UKpol #NHS #AntiTransHate #TransErasure #TransGenocide #TransDemocide

Although it isn't making even the fringes of the mainstream discourse surrounding the fascist GOP's election-rigging SAVE Act, the reality is that unless nazis with an eliminationist agenda towards trans people make some sort of exception, the bill will likely disenfranchise every trans person in America who has legally changed their name, and quite possibly most people who are in the process of transition and thus have ID that may be inconsistent with their presentation or other documents:

https://truthout.org/articles/the-save-act-is-not-just-about-married-women-its-about-trans-people-too/

Federal Voter ID Bill Attacks Trans Voters — and Anyone Else Who Has Changed Their Name

"Much of the news coverage of the SAVE Act has focused almost entirely on the broad category of “married women” — a bloc of 69 million who may not have updated documents. But arguably, such a law is aimed directly at transgender people in addition to affecting married people who change their names. And that’s not to mention the 140 million U.S. citizens who don’t have passports and tens of millions who also don’t have easy access to a birth certificate. Regardless, the fact that trans people are at the center of this story has been easy to sideline: A story published by NPR last week listed eight things to know about this legislation — but didn’t mention the implications for trans people at all."

At this point can anyone who has been paying attention (a very small group indeed, as far as I can tell) claim to be surprised that trans-eliminationist nazis are trying to pass a law that further erases trans people from public life and social participation, yet most of American society hasn't even registered that as a potential consequence of this disastrous, anti-democratic bill? After all, when the president of the United States signed an executive order more or less saying that trans people didn't exist, which historically is a sure sign that a government intends to make that a reality, most Very Serious PeopleTM in our discourse shrugged and pointed to public polling as an excuse to not speak out to defend trans people. So why would this act of erasure and disenfranchisement be any different?

"Benfield is concerned that not naming trans people as a target of this legislation contributes to an insidious process that is ongoing: the erasure of trans people from public life in general.

“It’s going to affect lots of different kinds of people,” she said of the SAVE Act. “But the reason that the erasure of trans people worries me in this conversation is that it’s consistent with strategic erasure from the public sphere that’s already been happening.”

That strategic erasure includes President Donald Trump’s series of executive orders attacking so-called “gender ideology” and both state and national legislation that attempts to criminalize support for trans youth in physical and social transition. There are now only two genders — “male” and “female”— and anyone who falls outside of that could potentially face being pushed out of public life, including schools, sports, restroom facilities, and now voting itself. Even policies like Trump’s executive orders that aren’t immediately enforceable create a chilling effect, pushing trans people into the closet through intimidation."

I would hope that because it requires sixty votes in the Senate, the SAVE Act is a dead on arrival bill; but I can't say I'm all that confident in a Democratic Party that is openly blaming the results of an election they seemingly *tried* to lose on their (actually, nonexistent) support of trans rights, and its ability to protect people like me. Even if the SAVE Act is shot down however, the fact that this attempt at the mass disenfranchisement of trans people in American civic life doesn't even rate a talking point in this very public debate, strongly implies that when these bills only target trans people, the establishment "opposition" to the fascist agenda will continue to shrug, offer empty words of condolence, and simply let it happen; which is pretty much par for the course in the fascist Trump 2.0 era.

To say that living in a society where your rights and even your existence are not so much up for debate, but rather already judged to be either irrelevant, or non-existent, is surreal and unnerving, would be an understatement of massive proportions. I guess there is one upside here however, because if trans people can no longer vote, perhaps I'll finally be free of liberals who honestly don't give a rats ass about my life, screaming at me to support a Democratic Party that doesn't care whether I live or die, while pretending their party is a much better advocate for my right to exist, than they actually are.

#Fascism #GOP #SAVEAct #LBTQ #AntiTransPogrom #TransRights #Disenfranchisement #CivilRights #HumanRights #TransErasure #Trump #Transphobia

#Maine governor criticizes #Trump administration for freezing funds amid #transgender athlete dispute: ‘It’s not rational’

By Alyssa Vega Globe Staff,Updated April 14, 2025

"Maine #GovernorJanetMills criticized the Trump administration on Monday just days after it moved to cut all federal #education funding to the state. The move came in response to Maine’s refusal to enforce the administration’s directive to ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports.
In an interview on MSNBC’s 'Morning Joe' Monday, Mills said the state received a series of letters from federal agencies, culminating in an April 2 letter from Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, which the Maine governor described as 'appalling' in tone and substance. Mills said the next day Rollins threatened to pull all education funding to the state.

" 'Because there are maybe two — at most — two transgender athletes competing in Maine schools right now, they decided to shut off funding for our school nutrition program, the school lunch program entirely, on which 172,000 Maine school #children rely for their school meals. That didn’t make any sense,' Mills said. "

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/NRfNV

#USPol #TrumpHatesChildren #TrumpIsABully #MadKingTrump #JanetMills #GovernorMills #TransgenderAthletes #TransAthletes #ProtectTransYouth #SeeYouInCourt #MaineResists #TransErasure #TransgenderRights #TransgenderRightsAreHumanRights

#Trump administration refers #Maine to #DOJ over #TransgenderAthletes

by Brooke Migdon - 04/11/25

"The Department of Education on Friday referred a #TitleIX investigation into Maine schools to the #JusticeDepartment after the state failed to reach a resolution with the Trump administration over a finding that it violated federal anti-discrimination law by allowing transgender students to participate in girls’ sports.

" 'The Department has given Maine every opportunity to come into compliance with Title IX, but the state’s leaders have stubbornly refused to do so, choosing instead to prioritize an extremist ideological agenda [sic] over their students’ safety, privacy, and dignity,' said Craig Trainor, acting assistant Education secretary for [WHAT A JOKE] civil rights.

"The Education Department in its announcement said it will also initiate administrative proceedings to determine whether to terminate federal #K12 education funding for Maine’s state education department, including formula and discretionary grants.

"'The Maine Department of Education will now have to defend its discriminatory practices before a Department administrative law judge and in a federal court against the Justice Department,' Trainor said. 'Governor [Janet] Mills would have done well to adhere to the wisdom embedded in the old idiom — be careful what you wish for. Now she will see the Trump Administration in court.'

"Both the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which recently began investigating schools and states that allow transgender athletes to compete in girls’ sports, said in March that Maine had violated Title IX, the federal civil rights law against sex discrimination that the Trump White House says prohibits trans athletes from competing on girls’ and women’s teams."

#TransgenderRights #FollowTheScience #Transphobia #TransErasure #ProtectTransYouth #MaineResists #TrumpIsABully #SeeYouInCourt #AbortionRights? #WomensRights? #ArrestingMiscarryingWomen? #TrumpDoesntGiveAShitAboutWomen

#USpol #TransErasure

Think about this. In America, the 'land of the free', the bastion of 'free speech', proclaimer of the 1st Amendment, you can publish and have posted on govt health/science sites all the papers you want about suicide rates amongst serial killers or the preferred diet of modern cannibals.

But your papers cannot so much as mention transgender people. They cannot be said to exist.

When and how do we burn this thing to the ground? Asking for a friend in a Guy Fawkes mask whose identity I can't remember.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/03/12/doctors-lawsuit-trump-research-transgender-lgbtq

I got a little something extra in the mail from Mr. Rubio today.

I would prefer zero bigotry, but I at least preferred when they were afraid to do it in public, let alone in writing.

#Transphobia #TransErasure #TransRights #MarcoRubio

A letter from the U S Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs Passport Services says,
Information Changed on Application.
The date of birth, place of birth, name, or sex was changed on your passport application.
The changes were made for one of the following reasons:
To correct information to show your biological sex at birth,
To match the documents you submitted,
To match our records,
To show the country of birth as it is currently known, or
To use only letters.

Questions? Please call 1-877-487-2778 (TTY/TDD: 1-888-874-7793) or go to travel.state.gov.

@rogerparkinson #Trans people.exosted even in prehistoric times.

The #Nazis were just efficient at #democide and #genocide against them...

https://web.archive.org/web/20220309160330/https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/1221503438845952000

#TransRightsAreHumanRoghts #TransErasure #TransDemocide #TransGenocide #TransHistory

The latest news from the US about #transuicides and the overall #transerasure happening is hurting my heart in ways I honestly have never felt before. Even though it's been almost a year since I started my gender experimentations and crossings, especially with my gel nails every month, and my self exploration in that sense, understanding that I personally don't care about having a specific gender, feeling that being called a man or a woman is meaningless and I'm something else entirely, something that I can't really define because it's not static, giving myself the biggest possible freedom in this sense, I've always been afraid to include myself under the #trans umbrella. It always felt like I was still a male trying to appropriate something that wasn't mine, forcibly trying to enter a space I didn't belong to. Now it feels different. Now everything feels like it's touching me directly. It feels they're erasing me as well. It feels they want to kill me as well.
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@larsmb if that's not evidence of #TransGenocide with #TransErasure then IDK what is!

@flexghost next up is #TransGenocide...

Cuz they're already full-steam ahead on #TransErasure!

@grincheux @danirabbit no, for people from the USA travelling abroad.

The result is the same tho: #TransErasure to ease #TransDemocide and #TransGenocide !

#TransErasure

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