Massacred for Telling the Truth: Trans People

Written by Warren J. Blumenfeld

At least 26 transgender and sex non-conforming people were killed in the United States in 2023, according to the Human Rights Campaign, with only a few days left. 84 % of the population identified as People of Color, and 54 % as Black trans people. Seventy-three percentage of murders involved the use of a firearm, and fifty percent involved false identification or click names.

Massacred Trans Persons in the U.S. in 2023. Describe Their Labels:

Sherlyn Marjorie, LaKendra Andrews, London Price, Lisa Love, Dominic Dupree ( also known as Dominic Palace ), A’nee Johnson,

Thomas Tom-Tom Robertson, DéVonnie J’Rae Johnson, Chyna Long, Luis’ngel D’az Castro, YOKO,

Ashley Burton, Ta’Siyah Woodland, Tortuguita, Jacob Williamson, Chanell Perez Ortiz, Ashia Davis, Banko Brown, Koko Da Doll, and

Zachee Imanitwitaho, Unique Banks, Houston Johnson, Jasmine” Star” Mack, Chashay Ashanti Henderson

Trans people have often been included in the group of society’s truth-tellers.

Up, activists worked to put an instant end to the practice of human slavery as well as the eradication of racial segregation and discrimination. They encountered fierce opposition from a variety of Christian churches, some of which claimed that spiritual gospel not only supported but, more importantly, required the practice of slavery.

To the scathing jeers of onlookers and crashing batons of local authorities, young people staged a number of sit-in protests at Southern breakfast counters to stop Jim Crow laws of isolated public facilities. Protesters were subject to incarceration and the implementation of continuous legal documents.

Women emerged as a fresh force in the fight for women’s suffrage against an attitude that the equality of ladies would kill Christianity and society itself, as well as strong opposition to obstructionism within an patriarchal method of male dominance and misogyny.

By insisting that the Earth revolves around the Sun instead than, as was the Church’s guiding principle, that Earth is the unyielding center of the universe with the Solar revolving around it, The Church persuaded mathematician and scientist Galileo Gallilei on the cost of heresy. Galileo was imprisoned at home for the rest of his career.

One of the greatest conflict heroes in European history was Joan of Arc, a teenager who assisted in defeating the English in her native France. Despite this, the Catholic Church tried her on the cost of blasphemy for disobeying Church authority in favor of receiving direct inspiration from God and, most importantly, for dressing as a man. Joan perished by being burned at the stake.

Many people believe that Alan Turing, a pioneer in the development of computers, mathematics, logic, philosophy, a^nd cryptanalysis, was mainly responsible for deciphering Nazi coded emails, which also helped save Great Britain a^nd cut the war’s duration by two to four years. Turing was sentenced to have” chemical castration” by receiving estrogen injections rather than serving two years in prison after the British government decided to i^ndict him on the grou^nds that he was a homosexual. A few weeks before turning 42, Turing took his life.

There are numerous instances in history where people and groups had to endure excruciating possibilities in order to simply express their truth, usually at great personal cost. Governments and influential people have developed strategies for stifling criticism in order to maintain and increase its power and dominance.

They carry out genocide against the real animal conquerors, the wealth, and the geniuses who promote a fair and free world. These geniuses, who were persecuted in their own day, have not only been cleared, but more important, they are now revered for being the true prophets they once were.

The idea of” cultural hegemony” was developed by Antonio Gramsci and describes how the dominant group successfully communicates its social definitions of reality and social visions in a way that is regarded as” common sense,” “normal,” and “universal.” The inequality of groups with different identities or opposing viewpoints is maintained and expanded by this identity.

Trans people have revealed the truth about this social construct known as “gender jobs,” which our nation attributes to each of us in the same way that it assigns us a sex at birth. Society forces us to adhere to its “feminine text” with the brand “female” assigned at birth, and we are given our “masculine” storyline to work out with “male,” as well. Gender part scripts were likewise created long before any of us reached adulthood, just as playscripts are given to actors. In actuality, they do n’t really relate to our personalities, convictions, interests, or values.

Judith Butler, a cultural theory, claims that

In a sense,” The action that one does, the action one performs,” refers to an action that was taking place before one arrived on the scene. Therefore, sex is an action that has been practiced, much like a text survives the specific actors who use it, but which requires individual actors in order to actualize and reproduce as reality once more.

The director ( society ) imposes harsh, frequently fatal punishments if we challenge the director by refusing to follow our orders and when we tell the truth about this human lie about gender roles. People of the trans area frequently experience the repercussions of various historical truth-tellers. Somewhere in the world, someone is killed almost every two weeks for expressing female deviance. The vast majority of deaths involve transgender women of color.

Murderers of trans people respond violently and fanatically to the larger oppressive political battalions that are determined to eradicate all evidence of gender transgression in both young and old people in order to preserve gender scripts. When we impose gender-role conformity on others and give up our essential consciousness by failing to modify or eliminate the scripts in ways that work intrinsically for us, the majority of us in this drama serve as conscious or unconscious co-directors.

The cultural “function” of establishing and reiterating the politically constructed code given to them when they enter the performance is frequently performed by bullies who have crept into schools and bullied world.

When Frederick Douglass described the dehumanizing effects of slavery not just on those who were enslaved, but also on white slavers whose position to slavery had defiled their humanity, I ca n’t help but think of something he once said about escaping slavery and working for the cause of liberation. Despite the fact that the cultural climate of Douglass’s day was quite different from that of today, I think his words have meaning through analogy:

” No person can put a ring around another person’s hip without eventually discovering that the other end is fastened around their own neck.”

Although it is undeniable that oppression protects the interests of members of prominent groups, it will eventually fail and engulf them. As a result, I’ve come to realize that while people of targeted (occasionally referred to as “minoritized” ) groups are oppressed, dominant or agent parties suffer on many levels. Even though the qualitative effects of oppression vary for particular intended and dominant groups, everyone ultimately loses.

First, by forcing people to treat others poorly, which goes against their fundamental humanity, cissexist ( transgender oppression ) conditioning compromises people’s integrity. It prevents one from developing close, intimate relationships with trans people, normally limits communication with a sizable portion of the population, and, more particularly, restricts family relationships.

All people are forced into firm gender-based jobs as a result of cissexism, which limits creativity and self-expression. Additionally, it hinders cisgender individuals from accepting the advantages and gifts provided by the trans* area, such as philosophical insights, social and spiritual visions and options, contributions to the arts and culture, religion, spirituality, education, family life, and all facets of society.

Because each person has distinctive characteristics that are not regarded as mainstream or dominating, it finally prevents gratitude of other types of diversity and makes it illegal for everyone. As a result, when any one of us is degraded, we are all diminished.

It is obvious what this means: When any group of people is the target of oppression, everyone is finally concerned. So, we all have a self-interest in constantly working to eradicate all the various forms of oppression, including cissexism.

I firmly believe that cissexism, one of many forms of oppression, pollutes the environment in which we are all born and that it descends upon us like acid weather. For some people, souls are totally tarnished, while for others, they are only visible on the surface. No one is truly protected. In order to protect ourselves from the damaging results of prejudice and discrimination while working to improve the cissexist environment in which we live, we all have a duty—indeed, an opportunity—to band together as friends. We will all be able to breathe much more easily once we take the necessary action to minimize this waste.

With this in mind, we will start experiencing life to the fullest as individuals and as a community with our society and integrity intact each day we rewrite the scripts to provide an honest and true effectiveness of existence. We will also work toward lifting the ban against our transcending the gender status quo by consistently questioning and challenging regular conceptualization of gender roles.

I am grateful and glad of the transgender community for bravely challenging the cultural myth of gender roles that society has forced upon us by imposing all of our gender scripts. By exposing the obvious ways and options on a vast female range that are independent of the intercourse that is assigned to us or imposed and forced upon us by others, trans people have opened the doors for all of us to eventually destroy the sex status quo of linear oppositions. The crucial flexibility of gender has been demonstrated to us by the trans community.

One day, trans visionaries who are persecuted in their own day will be seen for what they truly are: creative reality clerks. The harassment, exclusion, fear, violence, and deaths may stop until that day. It is off to each of us to strive for this every day.

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