Defining transgender out of existence

Parker Molloy has a Twitter thread responding to this New York Times headline:

Trump Administration Eyes Defining Transgender Out of Existence.

Molloy assures us it isn’t an exaggeration.

In earlier stages of trans debates various government agencies (mostly at the state level) required trans people to have proof of sex reassignment surgery before allowing a person to switch gender markers on gov’t documents. Most of those rules have been relaxed, relying more on such things as being counseled by a doctor.

But the nasty guy (and we’re probably really talking about the vice nasty guy (VNG)) doesn’t want to acknowledge transgender people at all. Your gender is to be based on your original birth certificate and if there is a dispute a genetic test will clear that up.

This will overturn Obama administration rules that extended civil rights protections to an estimated 1.4 million Americans. These are people the VNG believes should not have rights. This effort will negate the humanity of people.

I say the policy is from the VNG because religious rights groups have laid out policies just like this. And the policy was rolled out just after these religious groups secured another seat on the Supreme Court.

Some people are tired of hearing about “Identity Politics.” That prompted Molloy to say:

I don’t ever want to hear another word about how it’s Democrats who are “too focused on ‘identity politics.’” THIS is identity politics. The sustained attack meant to get a bunch of bigots excited to vote IS identity politics.

Molloy responds to the MAGA crowd:

And hey, I get it. A bunch of the MAGA crowd that thrives on “owning the libs” will love this. They’ll laugh, they’ll cheer, they’ll mock my fear as being nothing more than saying “orange man bad.” They’re already in my mentions doing it. Their ideology is nothing more than “Ha! It made the libs mad so this is great!” What sad, sad people. Really. Honestly, if you see this and go “Yeah, but Trump voters were angry and we have to respect that” — when what they were angry about was the existence of others, screw off. Honestly.