1. La Vulnerabilidad de la Comunidad Trans ante la Violencia Armada.
El archivo subraya que las personas trans son desproporcionadamente víctimas de la violencia con armas de fuego, no sus perpetradoras. Las estadísticas indican que la mayoría de los homicidios de personas trans involucran armas de fuego, siendo las mujeres trans negras las más afectadas. Esta realidad impulsa a muchos miembros de la comunidad LGBTQ+ a considerar la posesión de armas como una medida esencial de autodefensa en un clima de creciente hostilidad.
- Trans people are far more likely to be victimized by gun violence than to perpetrate it.
- Gun violence remains one of the leading causes of death for trans people. Nearly three-quarters of all trans homicides involve a firearm. Most victims are black trans women. This is what happens when hate is armedand ignored.
- Gonna try and get my gun safety course and start target shooting, id rather know how to shoot a gun than not given the current state of things. Trans, queer, and minority folks should be armed.
- Armed minorities are harder to oppress.
2. Intentos de Control de Armas Dirigidos a Minorías y la Reacción del Lobby.
Se documentan los esfuerzos de la administración Trump y sectores conservadores para restringir el derecho a la posesión de armas a las personas trans, a menudo bajo el pretexto de que la identidad de género es una "enfermedad mental". Este movimiento es visto por muchos como un intento de desarmar a una minoría vulnerable, siguiendo patrones históricos de control de armas utilizados contra comunidades como las Panteras Negras. Sorprendentemente, la NRA y otros grupos pro-armas se opusieron a esta medida, defendiendo el derecho universal a portar armas.
- The trump regime did want to limit trans people from guns . The nra actually came out and said we said everyone deserves the right to guns, and we mean it.
- Banning transgender from owning guns was the first step in taking guns away from people. Knowing that people are gonna be pissed to authoritarian rule that takes away peoples rights, most authoritarian states take guns away from people.
- Maga fascists are targeting minority populations in which people tend to have mental health struggles. Right now trans and the homeless. They want to take away trans gun rights on the grounds that gender id disorder is seen as a mental illness.
- The gun lobby actually reacted very negatively to even floating the idea of trying to disarm trans people. They used their lobbying power to shut that talk down quick.
3. La Complejidad de la Identidad y la Posesión de Armas en la Izquierda.
El archivo revela una tensión dentro de los círculos progresistas y de izquierda. Mientras que algunos activistas liberales rechazan la violencia política y la cultura de las armas, incluso para la autodefensa de las minorías, existe un grupo creciente de personas trans y queer que se identifican como de izquierda y dueñas de armas. Estos individuos están cansados de ser encasillados y buscan espacios seguros para el entrenamiento y la defensa comunitaria, a menudo chocando con la cultura "ammosexual" de la derecha y el pacifismo de la izquierda.
- As a transwoman, a leftist, and as a gun owner, i am so fucking tired of the small but vocal group of people on both sides who think me and people like me are somehow pro violencepro school shootings because we are also pro gun.
- I am a gay, gun loving i agree with the well regulated part of 2a, liberal. I just find it ironic.
- I was told by my local indivisible organizer that i could only attend events if i did so unarmed. [...] apparently liberals think trans women having the ability to protect ourselves from violence is, in itself, an act of violence.
- If the republicans would shit themselves to see 100 trans folks with ar-15s strapped to their chests and wearing body armor marching down a street.