Doctors around the country who happened to provide treatment to
transgender patients are now dealing with violent harassment.
They have been targeted by right wingers, who have engaged in this full blown
assault, towards the transgender community for their own political purposes.
And it's having a real impact on these doctors and the patients that they serve.
One such pediatrician, Dr. Gina Sequeira,
who is a cofounder of a Children's Gender Clinic in Seattle Washington,
shared her experience roughly a month before the September protest.
She had received an unmarked letter in the mail that gave her pause.
She worried about the risk of anthrax, she tells TIME, of someone trying to hurt her.
Eventually, she gingerly opened the envelope,
inside she found printed posters decrying gender affirming care for children.
No child is born in the wrong body one red, who profits from this crime.
And we've talked about what gender affirming care for minors looks like.
The right wing would have you believe that they're like undergoing serious operations
when they're like 12 years old.
In reality, the treatment that they get typically tends to be mental health
treatment, especially considering the fact that suicide is unfortunately
very prevalent among the transgender community.
And the miners are also sometimes given,
medication that kind of slows down puberty.
So, by the time they're adults and they can make decisions about what to do,
they can make a fully formed decision and move forward in that regard.
And this is the type of care that minimizes the risk of suicide,
but of course the right wing doesn't care about that.
They have used this particular topic as a way of fearmongering.
As a way of making it seem as though parents who have transgender children
are abusing them somehow, by making them feel accepted within their family or
within their community.
And it's really starting to have an insane impact on the very doctors who are just
trying to do their jobs.
And I wanna give you an example, real quick before I go to you Cenk,
of the kind of rhetoric that we hear from right wingers.
So I'm gonna move over to graphic five here.
And this is actually from a former Mississippi lawmaker Robert Foster,
he tweeted this.
This is the kind of rhetoric that you'll you'll see from right wingers.
Some of y'all still want to try and find political compromise with
those that want to groom are school age children and pretend men are women.
I think they need to be lined up against the wall before a firing squad.
Firing squad be sent to an early judgment.
So basically, he is advocating for
essentially the execution of anyone who is supportive of the transgender community.
When he was called out for that tweet,
he decided to essentially double down tweeting this.
Why the firing squad specifically.
First and foremost, I am a Southern gentleman, he claims and
it's a very efficient and civilized way of disposing of evil.
Secondly, it would be too costly and time consuming to fly them
all high up over the gulf of Mexico and push them out of a helicopter.
That's the kinda guy he is and unfortunately he's not unique.
You see this kind of rhetoric in regard to the transgender community and
supporters of the transgender community quite often from the right wing.
>> Yeah, okay, so, first of all, in regards to that Mississippi legislator,
he should be arrested.
Yeah, I know.
He's a former state rep and ran for statewide office as well.
I got a decent amount of the vote by the way.
So he should be arrested.
We're normalizing threats of violence.
No, that's against the law.
So talking about executing people, in an extra judicial way is clearly a crime.
No, nothing, this is encouraging vigilante violence, lawlessness and chaos.
And that's what we're getting.
So, I know Democrats are scared.
You've got to take action.
You can't have a former legislators or anyone walking around going,
hey, let's just murder the other side.
I just, they're not getting how insanely lawless that is.
It's just a recipe for absolute disaster.
Now, let's turn to Republicans who are generally hateful overall as
an entire party, don't bother trying to deny it.
Here are facts.
19 states this year, 21 states last year, of course, all Republican states,
tried to pass laws against getting health care for transgender kids.
In Texas, Greg Abbott until the judge stopped him,
was having child protective services, go to the homes of transgender kids.
And try to arrest their parents for being good to them not for being bad to them.
So Republicans are sick people who are filled with hate,
they're trying to put that hate onto the trans community.
Now, why conservatives in this country historically have built their entire
ideology on hatred.
So whether it was slavery, it was Jim Crow, it was a southern strategy for
most of American history.
They hated black people and that's was their bread and butter.
That's what right wing in America is,
hatred of black people was their main stay.
Of course, they also hated Chinese and they blocked them.
They hated Latinos, they hate Muslims etc.
But in modern history they have been moving from category to category.
So they would pass laws against black people and then they passed
the anti-Sharia laws as if Muslims are about to take over Tulsa Oklahoma.
Then they passed anti-gay laws in 2004 against gay marriage etc.
Now, they moved on to trans people,
they just transfer their hate from one group to another to another.
So does it.
Nearly 50% of trans kids consider suicide.
Do Republicans care?
Other than the governor of Utah, who had a really great statement.
We always give credit where credit is due.
And if Republicans were good guys would tell you that, right?
As the governor of Utah was.
But outside of him.
No, they're all in.
They don't mind trans kids contemplating and committing suicide
because they think trans people, there's something wrong with them.
We should hate them.
We should ostracize them, we should take away their rights and
sometimes we should even take away their parents.
We should imprison their parents and send them to foster care.
That's the barbaric, hateful people that Republican voters are.
That the Republican leaders are acting this way because it gets them elected,
keep it real.