American Civil Liberties Union: All Your Human Rights Are Belong To Trans Now

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“It's no secret at this point that there is a coordinated attack to strip people away of fundamental freedoms right now,” reads a recent fundraiser email from the American Civil Liberties Union.

This is everyone’s fight, and this “fight is at the crossroads of nearly every civil liberty on the line right now – and we want you to know our attorneys and advocates are moving fast to defend them all.”

All of our rights. The ACLU is defending all of our rights. Not just the rights of some of us, preferring the rights of a few over the rights of everyone else, because that would be un-American.

A funny thing happened on the way to the legal forum, though. Just when you had gotten used to saying that “trans rights human rights,” now it turns out that all of your civil rights are in fact trans rights. All your rights are belong to trans.

Your fundamental freedoms are being stripped away by all those “anti-trans” bills around the country.

At this time especially, a growing roster of state politicians have become hellbent on jeopardizing the health and lives of trans youth. And our teams are hellbent on making sure they do not succeed.

It's been an incredibly busy past two weeks of filing lawsuits to protect trans rights and as you’re a community member who helps fuel this work, we want you to have a quick rundown of our latest:

Your civil rights will die, you will die unless we sterilize children and let them cross-dress for graduation ceremonies:

They are so proud of themselves. Of course this is expensive, but the ACLU has plenty of resources for the fight. The Trump administration was a huge boon to the organization, which saw its income go from $95 million in 2016 to $152 million in 2017 and then $205 million in 2019.

IRS 990s show that there was an earlier bump, however. The ACLU Foundation took in $70,273,661 during 2014. Then, during 2015, as a flood of “trans advocacy” money rushed into progressive spaces, their income soared to $94,047,925. Similar surges can be seen with other progressive nonprofits in the same timeframe. Jennifer Bilek has documented how philanthropic billionaires refocused the work of the ACLU and other civil society organizations on transgender politics in this period.

With such abundant resources for advocacy, it is no wonder that the ACLU is now all-trans, all the time, stanning for sports cheats and putting men in women’s prisons and convincing federal judges that genderbeings are recognized in the Constitution. It is where their bread has become buttered. They are working on a Citizens United for Dylan Mulvaney’s womanhood.

To get there, the civil rights of women, children, and critics of the new priest class are all forefeit. The civil rights of homosexuals are secondary to the civil rights of cross-dressing straight people who identify as “queer.” Freedom of speech and conscience are just white privilege and cisheteropatriarchy talking. Who needs them?

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ACLU spokesunit Chase Strangio is a big fan of sterilizing kids at the earliest opportunity on the flimsiest excuse. A “trans man,” Chase has declared that she will 100 percent die on the hill of stopping Abigail Shrier’s book about the harms that the trans cult has inflicted on young women.

This bizarre illiberal turn is emblematic of an ACLU that is no longer fit for purpose. A civil rights organization which enforces pronoun blasphemy rules is not a civil rights organization anymore. Heretics are to be excluded from the civil society that the ACLU wants to build.

If you lose your job over a pronoun, they do not recognize a violation. If you are a female prison guard forced to stripsearch a man because he wears lipstick and calls himself Susan, the ACLU does not recognize a violation of your rights. If you are a woman whose Title IX rights are trampled under the NCAA’s rush to affirm Lia Thomas, the ACLU does not recognize a violation of your rights.

All your rights are belong to trans, now.

In a recent ACLU podcast, Chase Strangio explains why all these “anti-trans” bills are happening.

It’s not that boys and men are cheating at sports, and people don’t like that. The problem isn’t that a weird cult wants to sterilize our children using schools, child services, and insurance regulations. These laws are definitely not about public revulsion at the real excesses of “gender identity.” No, that is unpossible!

Chase knows why this is really happening. She has it all figured out:

You have a huge, well-funded right wing movement that lost at the Supreme Court around marriage equality and very quickly started moving all of these resources into attacking trans people. And they did that for two reasons. One is that many of them are sort of true believers and in one, construction of sexuality, of gender and of family, the-the, you know, heterosexual Christian nuclear family is the centerpiece of how they organize society. And the other is that they had for years been using attacks on gay people getting married as a political tool to mobilize voting bases in the lead up to elections. And so trans people become the new center point of these attacks beginning in 2016 and of course, stretching back way before that. But if we think about this contemporary set of attacks, this is a buildup very strategically over the last seven years that is weaponized and escalated around high stakes elections. And the right, you know, broadly defined and defined in multiple ways is looking for ways to turn out voters and a way to cultivate a sense of anxiety that people need to act based in fear about change they can’t control. If you think about, you know, what was going on in 2014 and 2015 with attacks on, quote unquote, “waves of immigrants coming in” and people’s loss of identity. This whole idea that there’s a contagion of trans people, you’re losing your children and the world that you understood, you need to vote for us so we can enforce controls that are familiar. That is exactly what’s happening now, I think, for sort of two fundamental reasons. One is that the sex binary is one of the central organizing structures of society, both in the United States and around the world. And so, not understanding that or feeling like it’s less clear, it is something that people are just instinctively anxious about. And then I think the second reason which is related to that one is, I mean, there’s a million reasons, but just that I want to highlight, and this is really important to me, is that I genuinely think that the freedom that trans people represent, the freedom that not everything is as fixed and as static and as told to you by your parents or the adults in your life at age two, as you thought is scary for people, and that there is this sense that, oh, well, have I have I not made enough choices? Have I just, you know, ceded it to a narrative of who I am that was not of my own choosing? I do think there’s this anxiety that’s permeating a lot of this and people’s reaction is instead of sitting with themselves, instead of asking themselves hard questions, is to say those other people are freaks, they’re dangerous, they’re a threat, and we have to control them. And that, of course, is something that plays out throughout history. And, you know, having various types of scapegoats is often used to justify and legitimize expansions of government power that end up hurting everyone. And so I really think people need to sit with what it means when we authorize the government to intrude upon our autonomy and our freedoms so significantly, if-you know, as to one group, it is completely ridiculous to think that it’s only going to impact that one group.

Chase understands that humans are male and female. Chase understands that humans evolved to recognize sex instinctually, and that humans can find the uncanny valley of a Dylan Mulvaney unsettling. Chase accuses Republicans, though not by name, of fomenting hate against “trans people” to win elections. This “hate” is born from envy at the “freedom” those “trans people” represent, namely freedom of expression.

Except that not one of these “anti-trans” bills stops anyone from expressing themselves.

High school graduations have always been scripted events featuring only the most limited amount of self-expression. Sports are not about self-expression. Children are not “self-expressing” when they ask for magic sex changes, they are ruminating.

The ACLU is not protecting “self-expression” from the nuclear family, or Christian zealots, or white supremacy. They are not defending immigrants by defending sports cheats or putting violent men in women’s prisons. This is gaslighting. Abuse.

Americans have had enough of the ACLU and its blinkered all-trans, all the time agenda. #FreeSpeechForWomen #FreeSpeechUSA is coming to Washington, DC on 11 August at the US Capitol Grounds, Area 10. Men and women are coming from around the country at 10 AM to show the ACLU and their Democratic Party lackeys what democracy looks like.

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