The Ten Stages of Genocide as they relate to GQP Plans for Trans Kids and beyond

 (credit to Gregory H, Stanton, president of Genocide Watch)

The Ten Stages of Genocide:

The stages are:

1. Classification – The differences between people are not respected. There’s a division of ‘us’ and ‘them’ which can be carried out using stereotypes, or excluding people who are perceived to be different.
   
   
2. Symbolisation – This is a visual manifestation of hatred. Jews in Nazi Europe were forced to wear yellow stars to show that they were ‘different’. 
3. Discrimination – The dominant group denies civil rights or even citizenship to identified groups. The 1935 Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of their German citizenship, made it illegal for them to do many jobs or to marry German non-Jews.
4. Dehumanisation – Those perceived as ‘different’ are treated with no form of human rights or personal dignity. During the Genocide in Rwanda, Tutsis were referred to as ‘cockroaches’; the Nazis referred to Jews as ‘vermin’.
   
   The first four stages as to trans kids In Texas, Florida and other "Red States," bills have been introduced, passed by the state legislatures and even enacted into law, that treat transgender children as "other" - excluding transgender girls (and boys) from participating in school sports, using the appropriate locker rooms and bathrooms.  In some of these states, trans boys are forced to use the girls' bathrooms and locker rooms, play on girls' teams (or if they won't, to abandon the sport)
   
   Making trans children use facilities that are inappropriate, marginalizes them. Calling them by "deadnames" and misgendering them  is
5. Organisation – Genocides are always planned. Regimes of hatred often train those who go on to carry out the destruction of a people.
   
   In Texas, the State Attorney general Ken Paxton, has mobilized the state Division of Child Protective Services to arrest supportive parents of trans children,
   forcibly place trans children in custody and force them to detransition
   
   In Florida, because of bad interpretations of their so-called "Don't Say Gay" law, teachers are resigning or losing their jobs, and are being replaced by unqualified military veterans who are known to be ultra-rightwing supporters of the Governor, and the governor has removed a duly elected county prosecutor who refused to kowtow to the Governor's orders.
   
   
6. Polarization – Propaganda begins to be spread by hate groups. The Nazis used the newspaper Der Stürmer to spread and incite messages of hate about Jewish people.
   
   Ultra-Right groups all over America have been demonizing trans people for years, and have been amplifying their calls to discriminate against transgender children and their supportive parents.  
7. Preparation – Perpetrators plan the genocide. They often use euphemisms such as the Nazis’ phrase ‘The Final Solution’ to cloak their intentions. They create fear of the victim group, building up armies and weapons.
   
   In Red States, they are calling some of their moves against trans and gay children "parental rights" or "protecting children" to cloak their intentions 
8. Persecution – Victims are identified because of their political beliefs, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other difference, and arrest lists/death lists are drawn up. People are sometimes segregated into ghettos, deported or starved and property is often expropriated. Genocidal massacres begin.
   
   Texas and Florida are already inching into Stage 8 when it comes to transgender kids - other red states are not far behind - AND if Congress is controlled by Republicans in 2023-2024, only presidential vetoes will be able to stem the tide of national legislation to demonize trans people - and they will not stop with trans kids, or "the gays" but the white Christian Nationalists will not stop until they can go after non-christians, people of descent other then Northern European, and women, to various extents
9. Extermination – The hate group murders their identified victims in a deliberate and systematic campaign of violence. Millions of lives have been destroyed or changed beyond recognition through genocide.
10. Denial – The perpetrators or later generations deny the existence of any crime.