March 31 marked the first time the White House celebrated the annual Transgender Day of Visibility. “Don’t Say Gay”/”Don’t Say Trans” laws meant queer public school teachers were fired or almost fired but for mass actions like student walkouts in Florida and Texas. South Carolina criminalized trans youth participation in school sports and legalized discrimination against LGBTQ people by medical practitioners. In the past year, 22 state legislatures introduced and in several cases passed laws to ban transgender health care access for youth while banned books lists at libraries were engorged with titles featuring queer characters. institutions and the people behind them - including politicians, their corporate benefactors, and the armed guard forces that police the rest of us - consolidate power and wealth through the constant precarity experienced by marginalized people. Stanley argues that to stay in power, U.S. Stanley describes how the United States political system depends on violence against trans people. In their new book Atmospheres of Violence, organizer and University of California Berkeley gender studies professor Eric A.
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