Maggie Nelson, essayist: ‘Trump is using trans people as scapegoats; these are repressive tactics that will spread’
- Maggie Nelson stated that Trump is scapegoating trans people, describing these tactics as repressive and potentially spreading further.
- South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace promotes exclusion of trans women from women's spaces with her slogan 'Hold the Line' and has made transphobia a personal brand.
- Senate Democrats successfully blocked a bill that aimed to ban trans women and girls from women’s sports leagues in K-12 schools and public universities.
- Democratic candidates largely avoided discussing trans issues, with one candidate only stating her administration would 'follow the law' for incarcerated trans people.
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Maggie Nelson, essayist: ‘Trump is using trans people as scapegoats; these are repressive tactics that will spread’
It’s been several years since Maggie Nelson last visited Spain. But a high school boy’s question from her time there keeps echoing in her head: “He asked me why fascism was so bad for freedom,” the author recalls. That was in 2021. She was on a book tour for On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint. “There was a lot embedded in that question… and even though I noted several things in my answer, I realized they weren’t really landing,” Nelso…
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