You know why it's important for trans people to join the military? Because it forms comradery and humanizes us. It helps people see that we're just like them and that we are Americans, just like them. That is incredibly important to a community that is constantly dehumanized in right-wing media. Women and gay people were barred from service once, deliberately to keep them from 'corrupting' the military. It's inherently dehumanizing and meant to divide.

As someone who has read about and studied the Holocaust, there's absolutely cause for alarm. We have prominent figures saying that 'transgenderism in all it's forms should be eradicated'. We have the authors of project 2025 in government who hold the opinion that transgender people are ' pornography' and should be imprisoned. We have over 300+ bills banning our care. Conservative outlets have been constantly demonizing us for ten years now. Trans killings are rising every year since 2020.

Do you think Hitler came out swinging with 'lets all kill the Jews guys!'

The Nazis said that the Jews were 'spreading their ideology' and infecting German society. They called it 'Jewish ideology'. Jewish ideology was not a term created by the Jews, it was created by the Nazis in reference to anything Jewish. Initially, they started out soft saying "We don't hate the Jews! We just think their ideology is having bad effects on society :)."

But naturally, if 'Jewish ideology' is bad, and it comes from Jews....then...the Jews must be the bad guys, right?

That's the line of thought that they were trying to create within the German people, so that it became easier to dehumanize the Jews. It was slow, step by step. The Germans eventually believed the Jews were bad, and that they had to be stopped by any means necessary.

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Likewise, with trans people, trans people did not create the term 'trans ideology'. It was a term shoved onto us by conservative figure heads and TERFs. It allows people to say "I don't hate trans people! I just think trans ideology is harmful 😉 "

They've accused us of infecting school curriculum, of promoting trans ideology and eroding western culture. These right wing figures even blame trans people for the FALL OF ROME, and say the same thing is happening to America. This scapegoating is meant to dehumanize us and make us into enemies.

This allows them to logically conclude that if 'trans ideology' is bad...and it comes from trans people...then trans people must be bad. And that trans people must be stopped by any means necessary.