‘Experts’ Warn US Is on Brink of ‘Trans Genocide’
Four “genocide scholars,” including two former presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, told the publication Important Context this week that the U.S. is in the early stages of committing a genocide against transgender Americans.
One former president of the IAGS, Dr. Gregory Stanton, said the U.S. is currently engaged in a “genocidal” attempt “to destroy a gender group.” Another former president of the organization, Dr. Henry Theriault, said he is “concerned” about a genocide against trans people “in the near future.” For her part, Dr. Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, the founder and executive director of the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, said the U.S. is in the “early-to-mid stages of a genocidal process against trans and nonbinary and intersex people.”
“And so I do think it’s genocidal,” explained Stanton. “I think that the objective here is literally, physically to destroy this group.”
In Theriault’s perspective, the question is not “Will genocide happen?” but rather “we got to stop it from happening.”
The “expert” evidence for this supposed genocide is state laws prohibiting people from using the bathroom that belongs to the opposite biological sex, state laws prohibiting minors from receiving cross-sex hormones and surgeries for the purpose of “gender transition,” the NIH’s rollback of “LGBTQIA+-related research,” and the President Donald Trump’s executive orders related to healthcare; this includes his order forbidding hospitals receiving federal funding from participating in “gender transitions” for minors. The publication also pointed to Michael Knowles’ 2023 comment, “Transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely — the whole preposterous ideology, at every level,” as evidence that conservatives are bent on genocide. It also mentioned the elevated suicide risk among those who identify as transgender. (RELATED: Away With the Absurdity That the Left and the Right Are Equally Vicious)
One “genocide expert,” Haley Brown, who spoke to Important Context, said, according to the publication, that laws requiring bathroom usage based on biological sex “effectively give non-state actors tacit approval to commit violence.” Brown explained: “It’s always been about policing. It’s this idea that I am going to create and reinforce my ideal values of society and the state, down to the very physiological characteristics and features of the humans that exist within that state.”
In this way, the supposed genocide against those who identify as transgender operates by ending identification with transgenderism.
The “experts” somewhat acknowledged that genocide typically refers to large-scale atrocities aimed at destroying a religious, national, or racial group. But they countered that the U.N.’s definition of genocide is too narrow in that it does not include “socially defined” groups. And they further supplied that Republican efforts are aimed at “destroying identities,” which they said can have the effect of ending a “gender group.” In this way, the supposed genocide against those who identify as transgender operates by ending identification with transgenderism. (RELATED: Defending Nigeria’s Christians from Islamist Genocide)
“The genocidal process is really about destroying identities, destroying groups through all sorts of means,” said Von Joeden-Forgey.
But Von Joeden-Forgey also seemed to take things further, stating that this could just be the pretext to mass killings. According to Important Context, she said that genocides that result in “mass deaths” have, in her words, “started out with other techniques that are less violent — at the beginning.” Von Joegen-Forgey further claimed that “once genocide is in the mix,” then “[t]he state in question will commit other mass atrocities.”
For his part, Stanton said that the belief that sex is binary is “totalitarian” and driven by “Nazi ideology.” The Nazis, he explained, according to Important Context, “also held a binary view of men and women and killed many LGBTQIA+ individuals.” Important Context hammered his point home for him, noting that the percentage of Americans who identify as transgender is roughly equivalent to the percentage of Jewish people in Nazi Germany.
This is not the first time in recent years the Left has weaponized the term genocide for its own purposes. Last year, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, the organization that two of Important Context’s “experts” formerly led, passed a resolution declaring that Israel is carrying out a genocide in Gaza. The resolution was filled with factual inaccuracies and utilized Hamas statistics on combatant and civilian deaths to “prove” Israel has killed that number of Palestinians. (RELATED: The New York Times Sets a New Low on Israel)
It later emerged that anyone could join the International Association of Genocide Scholars, so long as they paid $30, and that the membership rolls were filled with non-academic-affiliated “experts” from developing countries, particularly from the Middle East and Africa. In response to backlash that the organization received over the ease of joining it, it explained that it errs “on the side of inclusivity.”
The organization said: “We aim to be inclusive and democratic by keeping the door open to artists, advocates, independent scholars, Indigenous scholars, global majority scholars, marginalized communities, and survivors. The goal is to include voices of those who may not have PhDs, official institutional affiliation, or the financial means to access ‘conventional’ education that often privileges Global North forms of expertise.”
Perhaps the large contingent of African and Middle Eastern activists is the reason the International Association of Genocide Scholars as a whole has not voted to recognize a “genocide” against people who identify as transgender in the United States.
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