Thursday, January 23, 2025

Transgender community in the US faces cultural war and politics

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The transgender community in the United States faces a cultural war, but also a political one, with laws being implemented that go against their rights and that put their health and their families at risk, forcing them to change their residence in search of a better life.

Nadine Smith, executive director of Equality Florida, a nonprofit that advocates for the civil rights and protection of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer residents of the state of Florida, expressed concern about the laws that transgender people face, in one particular case, which is the prohibition of medical care for transgender people and children because it puts their lives at risk, and where if care is provided, the person is criminalized.

In response to this, he called on society to unite during a press conference organized by Ethnic Media Services, where I emphasized that