Trump falsely links trans people to terrorism. Now, a target is on their back.https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/02/falsely-links-trans-people-to-now-a-target-is-on-their-back/ 🔗Hope Pisoni (19 Feb 2026)
In December, Kathy Brennan was in San Francisco on a video call with her wife and son when she started to feel a burning pain in her chest. While she ignored it at first, it quickly spread to more of her body until it was too much to bear. She called 911 and was brought to the hospital on a stretcher.
Brennan spent the next few days recovering in the hospital from what doctors determined to be a stress-induced heart attack.
Brennan had spent the past year in a near-constant state of what she called "safety monitoring" her wife, Alaina Kupec.
She obsessively followed the news about the Trump administration's attacks against the trans community, especially as officials began openly labeling trans people as terrorists. Everywhere she went, she mentally patrolled for how to keep her wife safe.
"Is our home safe? Is my wife safe? Are we safe? What do we have to do? ... Can we protect ourselves if people come to our door? What do we have to worry about when we go to the grocery store? Are we gonna get doxxed?" Brennan remembers thinking.
Brennan's fear reflects that of many trans Americans and their loved ones. In the aftermath of the assassination of anti-trans conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the Trump administration and its allies began taking actions to target socially progressive people and organizations as terrorists, with a focus on trans people. In September, Trump signed an executive order designating Antifa, a decentralized movement focused on militant opposition to fascism, as the first ever "domestic terrorist organization." At the same time, the closely allied Heritage Foundation—who penned Project 2025—began pushing for the creation of a new national security designation called "Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism."------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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