California Democrats Claim Trans ‘Attacks Escalate Nationwide’ as it Celebrates Transgender History Month

Assemblyman Matt Haney (D- San Francisco) led the California Legislature in celebrating Transgender History Month Monday, “as transgender people continue to face escalating attacks on their rights and freedoms across the country.”

What attacks? What loss of rights and freedoms?

Haney referenced the August 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, is considered one of the first acts of militant queer resistance against police harassment, particularly by transgender individuals and drag queens.

1966? It took until 2017 when San Francisco established the world’s first legally recognized Transgender Cultural District – and then Transgender History Month in 2023.

Here is what Assemblyman Haney says:

“California became the first state in the nation to officially recognize August as Transgender History Month in 2023, following a resolution authored by Haney. The designation was created in response to a growing national effort to erase transgender people from public life and falsely portray transgender identity as something new.

“For generations, transgender people have lived, worked, built communities and fought for their rights in California,” Haney said. “That history deserves to be recognized and celebrated, especially at a time when others are trying to erase it.”

In 2023, the California Senate held a LGBTQ recognition ceremony in honor of LGBTQ month, coordinated with Senate Resolution 33 by Sen. Susan Eggman (D-Stockton), proclaiming June 2023 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) Pride Month.

The Senate honored the notorious trans “nun” Sister Roma from the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence group, after the ridiculous controversy with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers had invited The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to receive an award in an on-field ceremony at Pride Night. When that did not sit well with many Dodgers fans – especially Catholics – the Dodgers disinvited the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, but then reinvited them, resulting in the pro-baseball team earning the title, “Bud Light of Baseball,” the Globe reported.

The Senate ceremony honoring the accomplishments of the trans nuns devolved into Democrats showing their virtue, claiming that the LGBTQ community is unsafe, has no freedoms, live in danger, are victims, and are harmed… because of right wing extremists.

Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) said right wing extremists are “trying to undo LGBTQ rights.”

Kicking off our Capitol Pride celebration with the amazing Sister Roma & other Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

We’re honoring Sister Roma & other badass LGBTQ community leaders from around California. pic.twitter.com/jfino2hzIb

— Senator Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) June 5, 2023

Sen. Josh Becker (D-Menlo Park) said “rising homophobia and transphobia coincides with antisemitism and white supremacy.” That was a head-scratcher.

Sen. Lena Gonzalez (D-Long Beach) claimed parents at her daughter’s elementary school who protested “Trans Day of Visibility” were bigoted, and that a trans friend told her “You have no idea what it is like to have your rights stripped away.” What rights? Sen. Gonzalez did not elaborate.

Sen. Wiener again blamed “right wing extremists” and “bigoted extremists” for tearing down Target displays [over the girls bathing suits for trans kids with a “tuck-friendly” pouch for male genitalia]. Yes, those parents who now refuse to shop at Target are real extremists.

Sen. Wiener said the “political attacks actually harm the lives of real human beings. Real people are harmed because of executive orders.”

“These are families just trying to raise their kids,” he said, and spoke of “the violence that always flows from this hateful rhetoric.”

Political “attacks.” Unless you buy in 100% to the agenda, you are guilty of “political attacks” and “hateful rhetoric.”

Trans people are a very small population – roughly 0.5% in the U.S.  The left claims they experience higher average victimization rates in multiple studies. However, absolute numbers of fatal anti-trans violence remain relatively low compared to overall U.S. homicide figures, and some recent tallies show declines rather than sharp rises, according to the UCLA Williams Institute.

However, high-profile mass shootings by trans individuals highlight the mental health issue the left refuses to address – Nashville 2023, Minneapolis church 2025, and 2026 incidents in Canada and Rhode Island.

The Globe remembers when “gender dysphoria” was the legitimate psychological term referring to the “psychological distress that results from an incongruence between one’s sex assigned at birth and one’s gender identity.”

“Attacks” is a common description in leftist advocacy coverage of restrictions on youth medical transitions, women-only bathrooms and locker rooms, and women-only in women’s sports.

Opposition to ever expanding intrusive gender policies see this as protecting women’s and girl’s bathrooms and locker rooms, evidence-based medicine, and free speech rather than as attacks on people.

“Anti-trans attacks,” and “attacks on trans people,” or “transphobia” have been broadened beyond physical or sexual violence to include verbal expressions, general opposition, and pushback on medical interventions.

The referenced “attacks” are overwhelmingly a mix of restrictive laws and policies, tracked hate incidents, and political rhetoric rather than a nationwide wave of physical assaults uniquely surging in absolute terms.

Victimization disparities exist and are documented, as do debates over policy trade-offs, and data interpretation, but claiming “transgender people continue to face escalating attacks on their rights and freedoms” is irresponsible hyperbole, and a continued attempt to legislatively normalize it in schools, sports, and state policy.