incidents have been documented this year as in 2020, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, which tracks political violence. The Justice Department charged a Texas man this month with threatening a Boston doctor it also recently charged at least two others with threatening anti-gay or anti-transgender attacks. Doctors across the country who do similar work have been harassed. Since far-right social media activists began attacking Boston Children’s Hospital over the summer for providing care for transgender children, the hospital has received repeated bomb threats. It was one more month in a year in which intimidation and violence against gay and transgender Americans has spread - driven heavily, extremism experts say, by inflammatory political messaging. When this hate becomes manifested in real-life violence and there’s a celebration of it, is when it becomes too much to stomach.” “It’s one thing knowing there’s this extremist hate on the internet and seeing it in the abstract, and I can kind of compartmentalize. Caraballo, a clinical instructor at the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School.

“I had a full panic attack and breakdown,” said Ms. All of this just two weeks after the killing of five people - two of them transgender, a third gay - at an L.G.B.T.Q. rally in South Florida, also attended by the Proud Boys. Neo-Nazis protested another event in Lakeland, Fla. Members of the Proud Boys and other extremist groups, many of them armed, converged outside a planned drag event in Columbus, Ohio.

When she goes to her favorite bar in New York, she sometimes wonders what she would do if someone came in shooting.īut last weekend, it became too much. rights advocate and a transgender woman, she has received death threats, and her and her family members’ personal information has been published. Alejandra Caraballo is used to seeing anti-transgender hatred.Īs an L.G.B.T.Q.

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