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In George Orwell\u2019s 1984<\/em>, Emmanuel Goldstein is the ultimate scapegoat. As an enemy manufactured by the Party, his purpose is to unite the population through fear and hatred. His vilified image distracts the public from the real issues happening in their society. Instead it directing their anger towards a fabricated enemy. The people are left believing their safety is constantly threatened by an enemy that might not even exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Goldstein: Wikipedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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This manufactured hate is no longer fiction. In Trump\u2019s America today, the Emmanuel Goldsteins are trans women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just as the Party in 1984<\/em> spun a narrative to justify oppression, the modern world is the same. Current political leaders use false pretences to undermine the rights of transgender individuals to justify their bigger plan. Despite no data to back their claims that trans women pose a threat to women’s safety, their fear-mongering has given them the ammunition to pass 32 anti-trans bills in Congress this year alone. with 774 bills under consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don’t actually think this has anything to do with women’s safety at all,\u201d says Barbara J. Risman, a Sociology professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago. \u201cThis anti trans ideology is against any non-traditional lives for women or men. It is also against any right for any of us to be gender non conformist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just like Goldstein in 1984<\/em>, trans women in the US are vilified and scapegoated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scapegoating<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The gender ideology page<\/a> on the official White House website discusses this. It says that allowing \u201cmen to self identify as women\u201d has deprived \u2018biological\u2019 women of their safety in women’s only spaces. They said that their aim by recognising women as biological females and men as biological males is to defend women\u2019s rights. This suggests that the latter would have a \u2018corrosive impact\u2019 on women. However, multiple studies, including one by Williams\u2019s Institute in February this year, found no correlation between trans inclusive policies and violence in women\u2019s only spaces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trans rights march: PixaBay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThis is just part of their bigger plan to roll America back to a time where men, specifically white men, were the people who had the power in the society, and women were at home with their children, and they want everyone to fit into that mould,\u201d says Prof. Risman, \u201cBut of course they have to demonise trans women so people are too distracted to question the government\u2019s true motivations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat does it do when you create a narrative of trans women being a threat to women’s safety?\u201d says Emily Cousens, assistant professor in Politics and International Relations at Northeastern University London, \u201cIt creates fear. It works as a scapegoat. It works as a distraction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a government manufacturing the cause of a problem, then acting like they care by issuing strong statements and creating these \u2018solutions\u2019, which are devastatingly pernicious, but under the veil of looking like they are actually solving the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Double standards<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

While there is no available evidence to prove that trans women as a whole pose a safety threat to cis women, research shows that 99% of reported sexual assaults are, in fact, committed by cisgender men, with a large majority of the assaults targeted towards women (National Sexual Violence Resource Center). Despite the ongoing crisis, the number of anti-trans bills proposed far outweighs legislation specifically aimed at addressing male violence against women within the same timeframe. This highlights a disproportionate amount of attention being given to \u2018men identifying as women\u2019 instead of tackling real issues that harm women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here to here the words of a trans woman who does not want to be seen as a scapegoat<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Cousens says: \u201cThe fact that the government says that they\u2019re anti trans to protect women’s rights, and then fails to do things that actually protects women’s rights, makes sense- because it was never about women’s rights and it was never about women’s safety. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is really just about attacking any person, trans person, or woman, who dares not to fulfill their traditional ideas of what gender should be. Not only is this powerfully anti trans, but it’s also powerfully anti woman.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Real life consequences<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The effects of presenting trans women as a threat to womens\u2019 safety has had devastating consequences for the trans community, with transgender people being over four times more likely than cisgender people to experience violent victimisation (Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you tell people there\u2019s a threat, they attack,\u201d says Prof. Risman. \u201cIn this case, people either genuinely believe in a threat or need a justification for their violence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Avery Collins, 22, from Louisville, Kentucky is one of the many who had to suffer the harsh result of this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2021, at 17, Avery\u2019s female transition became more visible. Uncomfortable in the boys\u2019 bathroom, she chose to use the girls\u2019 during quiet hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI timed it so I wouldn\u2019t run into anyone,\u201d Avery says. \u201cI waited until the halls were empty before slipping in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her system worked perfectly until she was spotted one day. Since then she vowed to never use the restroom in school again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When she stepped out of the bathroom, she was adjusting her bag over her shoulder. She wasn’t paying attention to a group of boys waiting outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI remember being in complete shock when I heard a voice behind me. When I turned around my stomach dropped. They were three guys from my grade who thought they were above the rules.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They started to spit verbal abuse at her, accusing her of trying to rape girls in the bathroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attack<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

One grabbed her bag and yanked it off her shoulder, throwing it down the hall. Another pushed her to the floor with her hands scraping against the tile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI felt one of their feet slamming into my ribs, then more kicks ramming into my stomach and my back. I started holding myself, trying to block the places they were targeting the most. Then they started stomping on my head, smashing my skull into the floor. I could hear them laughing as they were doing it.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eventually they left Avery lying there. Her whole body was shaking. Her vision blurred with tears. The hallway was silent again, like nothing had happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn that exact moment, crouched on the floor, everything felt like a fever dream. The pain was unbearable. Every part of my body was screaming. My face stung where they\u2019d stepped on me, and I could feel the blood gathering under my skin. My ribs felt tight, and each breath was sharp, like I was inhaling needles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long term effects<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Avery was left physically, mentally and emotionally scarred for years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was hard to cope with because, honestly, I didn’t know where to start. How do you even begin to deal with pain that doesn\u2019t just affect your body, but your soul? The kind of pain that cuts so deep where it feels like the cruelest part of it all was the fact that they didn\u2019t just finish me off?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now, the same beliefs that got Avery attacked in a school hallway are being used to justify writing anti trans laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Risman says: \u201cI think it’s a terror. I think that this moment in history is a really tragic one for trans people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the last decade or so, we have seen so much improvement with trans visibility and acceptance, so to see a right wing government attack all of this progress in a couple of months is heartbreaking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lack of progression <\/h5>\n\n\n\n

While Avery Collins feels like there has been more visibility, awareness and allyship around trans rights, she feels like the backlash has been undeniable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt feels like for every step forward, we take two steps back,\u201d Avery says, \u201cAnd it\u2019s being fueled by the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve wasted so much time debating ignorant people about these baseless lies forced onto trans people, but I gave up when I realised the reality- they don\u2019t want the truth, they want a villain. For some reason, they picked us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s devastating because it diverts attention away from the real issues. They don\u2019t fight for the woman murdered by her husband, they don\u2019t fight for the survivors in underfunded, overcrowded shelters, but they will sure fight so I can\u2019t use a bathroom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Avery worries that trans children in high school today can be subject to the same fate she experienced if this rhetoric worsens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cWhen people in power start pushing these ideas, they embolden others to act on that hatred,\u201d she says, \u201cThe government is giving bullies a green light to justify targeting trans kids.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dystopian warning?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Orwell\u2019s 1984<\/em> warned of a world where enemies are invented, fear is manufactured, and united hatred is used to maintain control. Today, trans women are facing the violent effects of being scapegoated, vilified, and blamed for a society\u2019s ill, while the real dangers to women are disproportionately unchallenged. Like the Party in 1984<\/em>, modern governments risk following the same path- shifting focus from systemic issues to constructed enemies.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I look at the way trans people are being scapegoated, it\u2019s like we\u2019re not just being marginalised- we\u2019re being hunted,\u201d Avery says, \u201cSo, yeah, it absolutely feels dystopian.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The question is whether society will recognise these parallels or continue down this road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof Risman says: \u201cI think how quickly things will get bad under the Trump administration depends on how well the US Supreme Court and other courts hold to civil rights protections for trans people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have yet to see how that all plays out, but clearly these next four years are going to be much tougher than before.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Avery says: \u201cI\u2019m honestly terrified about the future. If the government is pushing this kind of narrative, it sets a dangerous precedent for anyone who doesn\u2019t fit the mold of what they consider acceptable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe message they\u2019re sending is clear: some lives matter less.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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