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Voter Suppression Effort Targets Transgender People

Voter Suppression Effort Targets Transgender People

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A group called True the Vote is training volunteers to target transgender voters as sources of fraud, says the National Center for Transgender Equality.

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Transgender citizens already face difficulties in voting because of voter ID laws in several states, but now a Tea Party-affiliated group is training volunteers to single out trans voters.

A training manual for a group called True the Vote "features a transphobic image that claims transgender people are fraudulent voters and should be denied the right to vote," says a press release from the National Center for Transgender Equality. Until now, voter suppression efforts "only inadvertently affected transgender voters," notes the NCTE, but "the discovery of True the Vote's training manual marks a shift by right-wing groups to explicitly target transgender people and deny them a right to vote."

NCTE executive director Mara Keisling called the effort "disgraceful," adding, "For trans people, voting is not just a right and a responsibility, for us it is also an important part of how we are winning our equality. Scare tactics like this won't keep us from that."

NCTE has a guide to navigating voter ID laws called the Voting While Trans Checklist. Find it and more information here.

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Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.
Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.