During the assault, Kern was shoved to the ground and kicked repeatedly. Kern told medical personnel that she hit her head on the pavement and passed out. None of her injuries proved serious. However a hate crime — which is what this was — sends a message that transgender people are potential victims of violence.
Monday, Phoenix police announced that they have arrested one suspect. They have released no details about the individual because he or she is a juvenile. There is little wonder why people feel that they have license to violate transgender folks.
Alliance Defending Freedom, an anti-LGBT hate group is based in neighboring Scottsdale, AZ. They have claimed that “Transgenderism Hurts Women’s Progress and Can’t Survive Its Own Logic.” Other hate groups like Liberty Counsel, Family Research Council, American College of Pediatricians and American Family Association have perpetrated the notion that transgender people are dangerous to others. Their further claims about transgender kids are based on flawed studies published as long ago as 40 years.
They do this, not out of concern for people with gender dysphoria. Rather it is an effort to conform religious dogma to science. Indeed, the amateur psychiatrist better known as Pope Francis crazily asserts that transgender is an ideology.
Every day trans people are assaulted or murdered in this country. Hate groups have blood on their hands. Yet they continue to demonize trans people. They devote considerable energy in an attempt to marginalize SPLC and deflect from their designation as hate groups with naked sanctimony. Hate group leader Mat Staver has even directed Liberty Counsel to sue organizations that correctly identify his operation as a hate group.
These are the organizations that Southern Poverty Law Center considers anti-LGBT hate groups:
- Abiding Truth Ministries
Springfield, MA - Alliance Defending Freedom
Scottsdale, AZ - American College
of Pediatricians
Gainesville, FL - American Family Association
Tupelo, MS
Franklin, PA - Americans for Truth
About Homosexuality
Naperville, IL - American Vision
Powder Springs, GA - ATLAH World Missionary Church (All The Land Anointed Holy) New York, NY
- Campus Ministry USA, The
Terre Haute, IN - Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM)
Washington, DC
New York, NY - Chalcedon Foundation
Vallecito, CA - Citizens for Community Values
Cincinnati, OH - Conservative Republicans of Texas
Houston, TX - D. James Kennedy Ministries (formerly Truth in Action)
Fort Lauderdale, FL - Faith Baptist Church (formerly Sons of Thunder)
Greenville, GA - Faith2Action North Royalton, OH
- Faithful Word Baptist Church
Tempe, AZ - Family Research Council
Washington, DC - Family Research Institute
Colorado Springs, CO - Family Watch International
Gilbert, AZ - Generations With Vision
Elizabeth, CO - Heterosexuals Organized for a Moral Environment (H.O.M.E.)
Downers Grove, IL - Illinois Family Institute
Carol Stream, IL - Illinois Family Institute
Tri-County chapter
Peoria, IL - Liberty Counsel
Orlando, FL - Mass Resistance
Waltham, MA
Torrance, CA
Lewiston, ME
St. Louis, MO
Yorktown, VA - Mission: America
Columbus, OH - Pacific Justice Institute
Sacramento, CA - Pass the Salt Ministries
Hebron, OH - Pilgrims Covenant Church
Monroe, WI - Pray in Jesus Name Project
Colorado Springs, CO - Probe Ministries
Plano, TX - Providence Road
Baptist Church
Maiden, NC - Public Advocate of
the United States
Falls Church, VA - Ruth Institute
San Marcos, CA - Save California
Sacramento, CA - Stedfast Baptist Church
Fort Worth, TX - TC Family (Traverse
City Family)
Traverse City, MI - Tom Brown Ministries
El Paso, TX - Traditional Values Coalition
Washington, DC
Anaheim, CA - True Light Pentecost Church
Spartanburg, SC - United Families International
Gilbert, AZ - Verity Baptist Church
Sacramento, CA - Westboro Baptist Church
Topeka, KS - Windsor Hills Baptist Church
Oklahoma City, OK - World Congress of Families/International Organization for the Family
Rockford, IL
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