The White House has released its new counter-terrorism strategy, which includes the following quote:
In addition to cartels and Islamist terror groups, our national CT activities will also prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.
2026 United States Counterterrorism Strategy
This is the same White House that said that trans people were “mutilating children” by advocating an end involuntary conversion therapy and being able to access the same puberty blockers already prescribed to cis children. That it was “gender ideology extremism” for trans people to update identity documents. This is what they mean by “violence”. They’re equating a 9/11 with trans people filing paperwork and cis parents loving their gender non-conforming children.
This lack of proportionality is a feature of authoritarian governments. Russia under the dictatorship of Putin added “LGBT movement” to the list of extremist and terrorist organisations.
Trump 2.0 has been obsessed with trans people from the start. The president has been inserting attacks on this population at every opportunity while his administration and those of Republican-led states wield the full powers of the government to persecute them.
It’s a scary time.