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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Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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