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Trump’s Anti-Trans Policies Embolden Far Right, But Our Existence Challenges It

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But we will not stop fighting. Our very existence challenges the fundamental tenets of A form of far-right populist ultra-nationalism that celebrates the nation or the race as transcending all other loyalties. Learn more and exposes the fragility of authoritarian power. We show that gender is diverse and mutable. We challenge the authoritarian myth that people are born into fixed categories and exist only to reproduce for the nationalist state. Instead, trans and intersex people show that people can find joy in their bodies and resist the rigid binary of woman/man and the heterosexuality on which authoritarianism depends. [politicalresearch.org] We are powerful, beautiful, and free — and that terrifies them.”

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