- by Maximus M
- The Guardian
- Issue #2187
According to a recent article by the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security, experts are warning that the United States is in the early stages of committing genocide on the American Trans Community.
Under international law, defined by the United Nations in 1948, “genocide means any of the following acts, committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethical, racial, or religious group(s)…” But some experts are concerned that this definition has become too narrow for modern interpretation.
For a number of years, the increasing size of the political right has been growing, increasing eliminationist rhetoric towards Trans Americans. During the 2024 US election, the Republican Party spent $222 million US on anti-trans attacks ads. In its year, the second Trump Administration has made it priority to reduce and roll back Transgender Rights, a number of executive orders targeting nondiscrimination protections and access to healthcare, and in 2025, the National Institutes of Health defunded LGBTQIA+ related research.
Republican lawmakers have been on a crusade, with more than half of all US states restricting youth access to gender-affirming care. Even thought the existence of Trans people and the effectiveness of hormone replacement therapy is understood and considered by every single major medical institute in the country, the US government is systematically trying to eradicate transgender people from simply existing. Experts are warning that increasing rhetoric used by the Republican Party, “using trans people to generate fear – particularly surrounding children, family, and their ideal concept of masculinity – which is priming their base for genocide.”
The used of this vulgar rhetoric by the far right is the same conspiratorial language used by Nazi Germany. US President Trump has repeated this conspiratorial language to attack Trans Rights calling it “cultural Marxism,” that is here to destroy western civilisation, the same language used by Nazis and their antisemitic clams of “Judeo-Bolshevism.”
According to the Rights for Peace, steps towards genocide are as follows: Polarisation, Stereotyping, Scapegoating, Loss of Active Bystanders, Dehumanisation, Discrimination & Demonetisation, Repression, Persecution, Organised violence and killings, and finally Denial. At least 7 to 8 of these steps towards genocide has taken place in the United States against the Trans population.
This warning by genocide scholars should be taken seriously. This should be a warning call for all people to stand and defend people’s rights to express themselves and oppose hate speech.
