Transgender Americans have said the president-elect’s relentless attacks on their community are taking a toll.
After Trump wins on a campaign rife with anti-trans ads, LGBTQ people flood crisis hotlines
Transgender Americans have said the president-elect’s relentless attacks on their community are taking a toll.
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/lgbtq-crisis-hotlines-trump-anti-trans-election-rcna179464
LGBTQ advocacy organizations have reported a flood of calls and chats to their crisis communication hotlines after Donald Trump won the election this week, following a campaign that was rife with anti-trans attacks.
The Trevor Project, a nonprofit that provides mental health crisis services to LGBTQ people, reported a nearly 700% increase in reach-outs to its crisis services on Nov. 6, the day after the election. The organization said it saw “significantly high outreach from LGBTQ+ young people needing support in direct response to election results.” One-third of those who contacted its crisis services after the election identified themselves as Black, Indigenous or people of color, the organization said.
The day after the election, The Washington Post reported that the Rainbow Youth Project, a nonprofit advocacy group for LGBTQ youth, had received more calls in the first six days of November than it receives in an average month.
Trump’s vow to strip trans people of their rights was a big part of his election pitch. He flooded airwaves with ads targeting trans rights and vilifying trans women in sports. Republicans have also spent much of the past few years enacting legislation to curtail trans rights and demonizing trans people.
NBC News exit polls show that a huge majority of gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender voters surveyed supported Harris in this election, while fewer LGBT voters cast their vote for the Republican candidate in this race than in any of the three previous presidential elections. Yet after a stinging defeat, some Democrats have suggested that the party should not be “pandering to the far left” — a proposal that my colleague Hayes Brown called “an instinct based on fear that should be rejected loudly and firmly from all corners of the party.”
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