Laverne Cox tears into Republicans for weaponising transphobia in election campaign
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Story by Ellie Muir (18 Oct 2024)
Laverne Cox has shamed the Republican party for "going all-in on their transphobia" this election season.
Wearing purple to honour Spirit Day – an annual day to fight anti-LGBT bullying on the third Thursday in October – Cox pointed towards the surge in anti-LGBT legislation across the US, listing off statistics such as the 25 states that banned transgender under-18s from accessing gender-affirming care.
"Thanks for making sure schools don't teach about sexual orientation or gender identity, because pretending trans kids don't exist means they disappear, just like pretending climate change doesn't exist... it disappears too!," she said, joking, "So I guess we will never know why my t**s are sweating in December."
Cox highlighted that Donald Trump and the Republican party have spent $65 million (£49 million) on campaign ads peddling anti-trans rhetoric. One of them targets presidential candidate Kamala Harris over her support for gender-affirming care.
"This is straight out of the bigotry handbook, using dehumanising language on marginalised groups provides a permission structure to attack them, because, when people are rendered no longer human, you can take away their rights, [and] commit violence against them with impunity."
Yeah I kind of think that schools not teaching sexual orientation or gender identity is like schools teaching that evolution didn't happen. And the whole Kent Hovind syllabus of utter craziness.
It's a mighty big sand pit to bury your head in.